This Book is a Plant – Anthology

We’ve grown comfortable thinking of plants as background scenery—useful, sure, but largely silent. This Book Is a Plant invites you to completely reimagine that relationship.

Groundbreaking research reveals that plants can think, plan, and may even possess memories. The green beings we share this planet with are far more complex than we ever imagined, and this remarkable collection from Wellcome Collection serves as your field guide to this new understanding. Featuring luminous essays from celebrated writers including Robin Wall Kimmerer, Susie Orbach, and Merlin Sheldrake, it weaves together science, memoir, and wonder into something entirely fresh.

Journey through moss-covered landscapes and fungal networks. Let Sheila Watt-Cloutier transport you to Arctic springs. Discover the quiet pleasure of painting trees with Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, or put down roots alongside Rebecca Tamás as she explores the secret life of soil. Each piece opens a doorway to deeper connection with the natural world—not as resource or decoration, but as community.

Here’s the beautiful irony: you’re holding a book made from paper, once part of a living tree. But it’s also a seed—the beginning of a radical shift in how you see the world around you. Perfect for nature lovers, environmental science enthusiasts, and anyone curious about our planet’s botanical intelligence, this collection will linger in your thoughts long after you’ve turned the final page.

Let this book change how you walk through forests, tend gardens, and notice the green life thriving all around you.

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