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How do we understand the boundaries of individual creatures? What are the systems of interdependency that bind all living creatures together?
Plants were among the the first to colonize the planet. They created the soil and the atmosphere that made life possible for animals. They are some of the largest and oldest life forms on Earth. In spite of their primacy, Western cultures have traditionally regarded plants as the lowest life forms, lacking mobility, sensation, and communication. But recent research argues that plants move and respond to their environment, communicate with each other, and form partnerships with other species.
Art, poetry, and essays by cultural anthropologists, experimental plant biologists, philosophers, botanists and foresters expose the complex interactions of the vibrant living world around us and give us a lens through which we can explore our intertwined histories.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Jim Ellis
The Nature of Plants: How Different Scientific Perspectives Shape Our Understanding of What Plants Are
James F. Cahill Jr, Megan K. Ljubotina, and Habba F. Mahal
Phytognosis: Learning from Plants
Patricia Vieira
Historia Plantarum: From Persephone's Abecedarium
Erina Harris
Periculum: Artist's Statement and Portfolio
Jennifer Wanner
Spectral Garden: Artist's Statement and Portfolio
Laura St. Pierre
Mike Macdonald's Butterfly Garden: The Little Garden that Could
Katherine Ylitalo
An Ancient Partnership: Prairie Grass, Bison, and First Nations
Wes Olson
Big Stone
M. N. Hutchinson
Gone Today, Here Tomorrow: An Interview with MIa Rushton and Eric Moschopedis
Ciara McKeown
The City of Calgary's Urban Forest: Past, Present, and Future
Nikki Anguish
Make the Waste Places Fruitful Gardens: The Calgary Vacant Lots Garden Club, 1914-1952
Andrew S. Mathews
Leila Sujir's Forest of Pixels
Nancy Tousley
