A review by 2000ace
The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man by Peter Tompkins, Christopher Bird

4.0

I grew up next door to a tree nursery, and spent my childhood running up and down rows of azaleas and camellias, and reading books in the branches of an old apple tree. Perhaps that is what made me so receptive to this book. I cannot remember a time in my life when I did not talk to plants.

Granted, this is a kooky book, and it has not aged all that well. It would be interesting if someone updated it, and maybe fine-tuned it. I actually got to see some of the ideas from these pages put into action, and ... they worked. I had the opportunity to garden with a man who had lived at Findhorn, and used the bio-dynamic gardening methods of Rudolph Steiner. I must admit, the day we used the ball of cow dung that had been buried on a full moon and left in the ground for a year or so before we dug it up was something else. We took the bolus and mixed it in a bucket with gallons of water and walked all around the farm sprinkling this magic elixir on the ground. We also planted by the phases of the moon. I have never seen such a lush, productive garden or such beautiful grounds,

Of course we are connected to the plants. All life is one.