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We know that plants are important. They maintain the atmosphere by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen. They nourish other living organisms and supply psychological benefits to humans as well, improving our moods and beautifying the landscape around us. But plants don’t just passively provide. They also take action.
Beronda L. Montgomery explores the vigorous, creative lives of organisms often treated as static and predictable. In fact, plants are masters of adaptation. They “know” what and who they are, and they use this knowledge to make a way in the world. Plants experience a kind of sensation that does not require eyes or ears. They distinguish kin, friend, and foe, and they are able to respond to ecological competition despite lacking the capacity of fight-or-flight. Plants are even capable of transformative behaviors that allow them to maximize their chances of survival in a dynamic and sometimes unfriendly environment.
Lessons from Plants enters into the depth of botanic experience and shows how we might improve human society by better appreciating not just what plants give us but also how they achieve their own purposes. What would it mean to learn from these organisms, to become more aware of our environments and to adapt to our own worlds by calling on perception and awareness? Montgomery’s meditative study puts before us a question with the power to reframe the way we live: What would a plant do?
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Silent Earth
- Averting the Insect Apocalypse
- De: Dave Goulson
- Narrado por: Dave Goulson
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
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In the tradition of Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking environmental classic Silent Spring, an award-winning entomologist and conservationist explains the importance of insects to our survival and offers a clarion call to avoid a looming ecological disaster of our own making.
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Thorough presentation of how we arrived at the current situation.
- De watergirl en 02-19-25
De: Dave Goulson
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The Tree
- A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter
- De: Colin Tudge
- Narrado por: Enn Reitel
- Duración: 19 h y 52 m
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There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first landed and pines still alive that germinated around the time humans invented writing. There are Douglas firs as tall as skyscrapers and a banyan tree in Calcutta as big as a football field. From the tallest to the smallest, trees inspire wonder in all of us, and in The Tree, Colin Tudge travels around the world - throughout the United States, the Costa Rican rain forest, Panama and Brazil, India, New Zealand, China, and most of Europe - bringing to life stories and facts about the trees around us.
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Not the book described in the Audible summary
- De E. Miller en 04-28-17
De: Colin Tudge
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Water in Plain Sight
- Hope for a Thirsty World
- De: Judith D. Schwartz
- Narrado por: Tia Rider
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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Water scarcity is on everyone's mind. Long taken for granted, water availability has entered the realm of economics, politics, and people's food and lifestyle choices. But as anxiety mounts - even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow and extremist groups worldwide exploit the desperation of people losing livelihoods to desertification - many are finding new routes to water security with key implications for food access, economic resilience, and climate change.
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Crucial solutions
- De Shane Emanuelle en 07-25-19
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Resilience
- Why Things Bounce Back
- De: Andrew Zolli, Ann Marie Healy
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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Katrina. Haiti. BP. Fukushima. The Great Recession. Those are just a few of the catastrophic disruptions the world has endured in recent years. As we try to respond to such crises, key questions arise: What causes one system to break under great stress and another to rebound? How much change can a complex system absorb while still retaining its purpose and function? What characteristics make it adaptive to change? Provocative and eye-opening, Resilience sheds light on the nature of change.
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Totally Misleading Title
- De Doug en 07-18-12
De: Andrew Zolli, y otros
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The Upcycle
- Beyond Sustainability - Designing for Abundance
- De: William McDonough, Michael Braungart
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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The Upcycle is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle, the most consequential ecological manifesto of our time. Now, drawing on the lessons gained from 10 years of putting the cradle-to-cradle concept into practice with businesses, governments, and ordinary people, William McDonough and Michael Braungart envision the next step in the solution to our ecological crisis: We don't just reuse resources with greater effectiveness, we actually improve them as we use them.
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A "must read" for the environmental movement.
- De Love owls en 07-09-13
De: William McDonough, y otros
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Fossil Future
- Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas—Not Less
- De: Alex Epstein
- Narrado por: Alex Epstein
- Duración: 16 h y 15 m
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For over a decade, philosopher and energy expert Alex Epstein has predicted that any negative impacts of fossil fuel use on our climate will be outweighed by the unique benefits of fossil fuels to human flourishing--including their unrivaled ability to provide low-cost, reliable energy to billions of people around the world, especially the world’s poorest people. And contrary to what we hear from media “experts” about today’s “renewable revolution” and “climate emergency,” reality has proven Epstein right.
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Strongly Recommend
- De Kevin en 06-14-22
De: Alex Epstein
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Population Wars
- A New Perspective on Competition and Coexistence
- De: Greg Graffin
- Narrado por: Tom Zingarelli
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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From the very beginning, life on Earth has been defined by war. Today, those first wars continue to be fought around and literally inside us, influencing our individual behavior and that of civilization as a whole. War between populations - whether between different species or between rival groups of humans - is seen as an inevitable part of the evolutionary process. The popular concept of "the survival of the fittest" explains and often excuses these actions.
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Life Changing Book. No other like it.
- De Abraham R. Herrick-Rough en 05-16-16
De: Greg Graffin
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How Soon Is Now
- From Personal Initiation to Global Transformation
- De: Daniel Pinchbeck
- Narrado por: Nathan Osgood
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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The world needs to change. We have unleashed an ecological mega-crisis which is threatening the future of life on Earth. The actions we take over the next decade are critical. They will determine the destiny of our descendants and the fate of our world. How Soon Is Now presents a compelling manifesto for personal and planetary change. It proposes a revolutionary new narrative for a unified social movement. Through global cooperation, we can face this collective threat ecologically, socially, politically and spiritually.
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Relevant!!!!
- De Anonymous User en 12-11-23
De: Daniel Pinchbeck
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How to Raise a Wild Child
- The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature
- De: Scott Sampson
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
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American children today spend 90 percent less time playing outdoors than their parents did; instead they spend an average of seven hours a day interacting with a screen. Scott Sampson asserts that not only does exposure to nature help relieve stress, depression, and attention deficits, but it also reduces bullying and helps boost academic scores. Even more important are the long-term benefits linked to cognitive, emotional, and moral development.
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Should be a requirement for parents to read...
- De bridgette spurlock en 07-20-16
De: Scott Sampson
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Genesis
- The Deep Origin of Societies
- De: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Hogan
- Duración: 3 h y 8 m
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Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to purely genetic and evolutionary components, and that the human body and mind have a physical base obedient to the laws of physics and chemistry, Genesis demonstrates that the only way for us to fully understand human behavior is to study the evolutionary histories of nonhuman species. Of these, Wilson demonstrates that at least 17 - among them the African naked mole rat and the sponge-dwelling shrimp - have been found to have advanced societies based on altruism and cooperation.
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Simply awful
- De Mike A Klotz en 02-07-20
De: Edward O. Wilson
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Sustainability
- A History
- De: Jeremy L. Caradonna
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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Caradonna's unique and concise history broadens our understanding of what "sustainability" means, revealing how it progressed from a relatively marginal concept to an ideal that shapes everything from individual lifestyles, government and corporate strategies, and even national and international policy. For anyone seeking understand the history of those striving to make the world a better place to live, here's a place to start.
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Excellent
- De marc grub en 03-06-17
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Lessons from Plants
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- 09-10-22
Educational and an excellent philosophical take on botany!
The information offered is wonderful! Very elementary such that it is understandable by most listeners, yet it reveals many little known facts about plants and how they relate to the human condition. As an ecology educator, I can recommend.
The only downside is the narration. I suspect the author is channeling Robin Wall Kimmerer, but her difficulty with the letters g, l, and ch was distracting. That said, I feel she did a fine job of making the “plant/person” parallel. Thanks.
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- 12-19-21
Interesting Book
Would have liked to heard more about some unique plant features/techniques/etc. But an interesting book.
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- S. D. Singleton
- 03-20-22
so informative
I'm an amateur gardener who thoroughly enjoyed this book. Did not know the depths of the intricacies of plants. Interesting how humans think we're so complicated applicated not lending the same characteristics to other living organisms especially plants.
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- Ella
- 07-26-22
Amazing
I am not a botanist, however, I absolutely loved this book. After listening to this book, i look at all plant life very differently. Although there were lots of technical terms used to explain plant life, I managed to follow at a very surface level and was astounded at what a plant goes through to thrive and survive. I am in awe. I too agree that we can learn a lot from plants, how to live together in spite of our differences, to adapt rather than disassociate, etc. The narrator was good. I recommend this book. Outstanding.
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- Becky
- 05-02-22
New appreciation
I've always loved plants & gardening. This book brings a new appreciation of the complexity of the plant world. Very detailed & well told, I was not bored at all given the many scientific terms & descriptions.
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- Vahid
- 05-18-22
I wanted to learn more about plant biochemistry
I loved the chapters that described the biochemistry of plants. I appreciate the comparisons between plant communities and human communities. The conclusion was too long and repetitive.
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- Cassandra
- 06-20-22
Difficult to Listen to
This book is well written, but the narrator has a lateral lisp that makes listening to it difficult. It was painfully distracting. Better to read a digital or physical version.
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- Kindle Customer
- 06-19-23
Good information. Bad delivery.
enjoyed the information in the book but couldn't stop focusing on the narrator's lisp (like she has a retainer in her mouth) and the slow delivery. I usually enjoy nonfiction audiobooks.
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- Lucy A. Pithecus
- 04-13-22
Awareness brings appreciation
The book is beautifully written and tells an informative story about how plants interact with their environment. I now look at the trees and flowers around me with new appreciation.
The contents are well organized and sorted by features or "behaviors", such as shade-avoidance, risk-taking/avoiding, transformation of external environments, interspecies diversity, etc. I would also be interested in a book that talks in-depth about one plant and then moves to another plant.
Readers new to the topic are likely to get the most out of this book. If you are well informed on biology or evolution, most of the concepts might already be familiar to you. However, the book contains rich information, excellent examples, and a well-formulated approach, and you will learn something new.
The book is read in a soft, neutral, and calming tone. It sounds like a friend telling a story in some sections and a zoom-meeting presentation in others.
All in all, it's a light, inspiring, and enjoyable "listen", and it expands the lenses that I use to perceive the world.
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- Terry Hope
- 04-16-22
for natural leaders
Let's say you receive this little book somehow by some algorithms of fate or by the grace of god. Then let's say, you are a leader-type, also you are a person with social conscience, and also you truly get that you are a part of a natural world . . . you might suddenly respond, as I did, to Beronda L. Montgomery calling your name. Your ears will perk up, then you will start to hear these plant lessons and take them to heart. All of a sudden, you are enlightened, reminded and encouraged at the speed of neurons connecting . . . and suddenly you see a good way to move forward. I don't know how to say it in any other way -- this message about leadership is profound.
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