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Author : Sally Morgan
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1404244220
Describes the ways in which human beings use plants in making homes, discussing wood, thatch, straw, bamboo, paint, insulation, curtains, and carpets.
Author : Beronda L. Montgomery
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780674259393
An exploration of how plant behavior and adaptation offer valuable insights for human thriving. 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?
Author : Sally Morgan
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1404244239
Describes the ways in which human beings use plants for medicine and health, discussing herbal remedies, antiseptics, disinfectants, soap and shampoo, toothpaste, and painkillers.
Author : Judith Hodge
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781450907590
Do you know that plants are necessary for human survival? Can you name some of the many ways plants are important to us? Through the ages, people have come to understand how valuable Earth's plant life is. Imagine the world today without paper, cotton clothing, and most of the foods we eat. Humans depend on plants for food, shelter, products, and medicines.
Author : Sally Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Plants, Edible
ISBN : 0750250631
A series that shows the multiple uses of crops, the 'How We Use Plants' books focus on the raw materials, the processes they undergo and the plant products that can be made.
Author : Stephen Blackmore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11
Category : Plant anatomy
ISBN : 9781782406976
Today's plants are descended from simple algaes that first emerged more than 500 million years ago, and now there are around 400,000 species. The huge diversity of forms that that these plants take is staggering. From towering redwoods, to diminutive mosses; from plants that developed stinging hairs and poisons, to those that require fire to germinate tor ocean currents to dsitribute their seeds. But how have we arrived at this mind-blowing variety in the plant kingdom? How Plants Work seeks to answer this intriguing question, drawing from a wide range of examples--from the everyday leaf to the most bizarre flowers--this book is a fascinating enquiry into, and celebration of, the rich complexity of plant life.
Author : Michael Pollan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780593296912
The instant New York Times bestseller | A Washington Post Notable Book | One of NPR's Best Books of the Year “Expert storytelling . . . [Pollan] masterfully elevates a series of big questions about drugs, plants and humans that are likely to leave readers thinking in new ways.” —New York Times Book Review From #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan, a radical challenge to how we think about drugs, and an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants—and the equally powerful taboos. Of all the things humans rely on plants for—sustenance, beauty, medicine, fragrance, flavor, fiber—surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. Take coffee and tea: People around the world rely on caffeine to sharpen their minds. But we do not usually think of caffeine as a drug, or our daily use as an addiction, because it is legal and socially acceptable. So, then, what is a “drug”? And why, for example, is making tea from the leaves of a tea plant acceptable, but making tea from a seed head of an opium poppy a federal crime? In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs—opium, caffeine, and mescaline—and throws the fundamental strangeness, and arbitrariness, of our thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs while consuming (or, in the case of caffeine, trying not to consume) them, Pollan reckons with the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants. Why do we go to such great lengths to seek these shifts in consciousness, and then why do we fence that universal desire with laws and customs and fraught feelings? In this unique blend of history, science, and memoir, as well as participatory journalism, Pollan examines and experiences these plants from several very different angles and contexts, and shines a fresh light on a subject that is all too often treated reductively—as a drug, whether licit or illicit. But that is one of the least interesting things you can say about these plants, Pollan shows, for when we take them into our bodies and let them change our minds, we are engaging with nature in one of the most profound ways we can. Based in part on an essay published almost twenty-five years ago, this groundbreaking and singular consideration of psychoactive plants, and our attraction to them through time, holds up a mirror to our fundamental human needs and aspirations, the operations of our minds, and our entanglement with the natural world.
Author : Bobbie Kalman
Publisher : Crabtree Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Human-plant relationships
ISBN : 0778795616
Discusses the physical characteristics of plants and describes some ways people use them.
Author : Craig N. Huegel
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780813063836
Choice Outstanding Academic Title Florida Book Awards, Bronze Medal for General Nonfiction Plants play a critical role in how we experience our environment. They create calming green spaces, provide oxygen for us to breathe, and nourish our senses. In The Nature of Plants, ecologist and nursery owner Craig Huegel demystifies the complex lives of plants and provides readers with an extensive tour into their workings. Beginning with the importance of light, water, and soil, Huegel describes the process of photosynthesis and how best to position plants to receive optimal sunlight. He explains why plants suffer from overwatering, what essential elements plants need to flourish, and what important soil organisms reside with them. Readers will understand the difference between friendly and hostile bacteria, fungi, and insects. Sections on plant structure and reproduction focus in detail on major plant organs—roots, stems, and leaves—and cover flowering, pollination, fruit development, and seed germination. Huegel even delves into the mysterious world of plant communication, exploring the messages conveyed to animals or other plants through chemical scents and hormones. With color illustrations, photographs, and real-life examples from his own gardening experiences, Huegel equips budding botanists, ecologists, and even the most novice gardeners with knowledge that will help them understand and foster plants of all types.
Author : Charlotte Erichsen-Brown
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780486139326
Chronological historical citations document 500 years of usage of plants, trees, and shrubs native to eastern Canada and northeastern United States. Also complete identifying information, 343 illustrations. "You can't go wrong." — Botanic & Herb Reviews.
Author : Frances Densmore
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486230191
Describes Chippewa techniques of gathering and preparing nearly two hundred wild plants of the Great Lakes area and provides information on their medicinal usage and botanical and common names. Bibliogs
Author : Thomas J. Elpel
Publisher : Hops Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1892784351
Explains the patterns method of plant identification, describing eight key patterns for recognizing more than 45,000 species of plants, and includes an illustrated reference guide to plant families.
Author : Mary Siisip Geniusz
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781452944715
Mary Siisip Geniusz has spent more than thirty years working with, living with, and using the Anishinaabe teachings, recipes, and botanical information she shares in Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask. Geniusz gained much of the knowledge she writes about from her years as an oshkaabewis, a traditionally trained apprentice, and as friend to the late Keewaydinoquay, an Anishinaabe medicine woman from the Leelanau Peninsula in Michigan and a scholar, teacher, and practitioner in the field of native ethnobotany. Keewaydinoquay published little in her lifetime, yet Geniusz has carried on her legacy by making this body of knowledge accessible to a broader audience. Geniusz teaches the ways she was taught—through stories. Sharing the traditional stories she learned at Keewaydinoquay’s side as well as stories from other American Indian traditions and her own experiences, Geniusz brings the plants to life with narratives that explain their uses, meaning, and history. Stories such as “Naanabozho and the Squeaky-Voice Plant” place the plants in cultural context and illustrate the belief in plants as cognizant beings. Covering a wide range of plants, from conifers to cattails to medicinal uses of yarrow, mullein, and dandelion, she explains how we can work with those beings to create food, simple medicines, and practical botanical tools. Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask makes this botanical information useful to native and nonnative healers and educators and places it in the context of the Anishinaabe culture that developed the knowledge and practice.
Author : Matthew Hall
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438434308
Plants are people too? No, but in this work of philosophical botany Matthew Hall challenges readers to reconsider the moral standing of plants, arguing that they are other-than-human persons. Plants constitute the bulk of our visible biomass, underpin all natural ecosystems, and make life on Earth possible. Yet plants are considered passive and insensitive beings rightly placed outside moral consideration. As the human assault on nature continues, more ethical behavior toward plants is needed. Hall surveys Western, Eastern, Pagan, and Indigenous thought as well as modern science for attitudes toward plants, noting the particular resources for plant personhood and those modes of thought which most exclude plants. The most hierarchical systems typically put plants at the bottom, but Hall finds much to support a more positive view of plants. Indeed, some indigenous animisms actually recognize plants as relational, intelligent beings who are the appropriate recipeints of care and respect. New scientific findings encourage this perspective, revealing that plants possess many of the capacities of sentience and mentality traditionally denied them.
Author : ROSEN PUB GROUP
Publisher : Powerkids Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1435825624
Describes the ways in which human beings use plants for food, medicine, making homes, and creating everyday objects.
