Categories: Plants – General/ Life Sciences – Botany/ Life Sciences – Ecology

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The Light Eaters

In The Light Eaters, award-winning journalist Zoë Schlanger explores the groundbreaking science of plant intelligence and sentience. This compelling narrative reveals how plants, though rooted in one spot, have developed extraordinary survival strategies. Schlanger uncovers astonishing facts: plants communicate distress signals, use electricity for internal messaging, and even remember and count bee visits. They can interact with other species to protect and fertilize themselves, raising profound questions about plant intelligence and consciousness. Packed with remarkable stories, The Light Eaters will transform your understanding of the green life forms that inhabit our world.

About Zoë Schlanger

Zoë Schlanger is currently a staff reporter at the Atlantic, where she covers climate change. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, Time, Newsweek, The Nation, Quartz, and on NPR among other major outlets, and in the 2022 Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology. A recipient of a 2017 National Association of Science Writers’ reporting award, she is often a guest speaker in schools and universities. Zoë graduated with a B.A. from New York University. She lives in Montreal, Canada, and Brooklyn, New York.

Reviews:

“I’ll never look at plants–or the natural world–in the same way again, after reading Zoë Schlanger’s stunning book. Instead of trying to ram the square peg of botanical life into the round holes of human biology and metaphors, Schlanger instead considers plants on their own terms, as they actually are. The result is mesmerizing, world-expanding, and achingly beautiful.” — Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of An Immense World and I Contain Multitudes

“Like its subject, The Light Eaters is rich, vital, and full of surprises. Read it! You will look at the world in a new way.” – Elizabeth Kolbert, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the new essay collection, “H Is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z.” author of Under a White Sky and The Sixth Extinction

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