Description
Book SynopsisReveals how we can learn from the intelligent communities of trees and plants. Breakthrough research is not only revealing a brilliant green world with amazing attributes like dispersed intelligence but also that humanity, like the tree and plant kingdom, thrives on innate cooperation, sharing, altruism, and community.
Exploring the latest cutting-edge environmental and ecological studies, climate adviser and environmental advocate Judith Polich explains how we can now see how tree and plant communities function, revealing a holistic, interconnected, communal, and seemingly sentient new world. She explains how trees communicate, how they share resources, and other ways in which they express holistic and cooperative behaviours.
Looking at the new scientific understanding of the evolutionary basis of altruism, cooperation, and community—and how these behaviours are genetically coded in our beings—the author examines the attributes we share with trees and other plant communities. She explores the healing powers offered by the plant kingdom, not just as medicines but through shared sentience that can help heal our sense of dissociation and disenchantment. Revealing how to see, think, imagine, and live with holistic eco-centric awareness, the author discusses how the stories we tell ourselves and our spiritual belief systems are becoming greener, including a resurgence of beliefs that originated with plant teachers. She also explores how to overcome our current cognitive biases through greater interaction with plant intelligence.
By viewing the world through a greener lens, not only can we reframe and unravel the deeper causes of the climate crisis, but we can also help co-create a new more conscious world with our plant allies.
Trade Review“Judith Polich has given us a magnificent gift in writing
Why Can’t We Be More Like Trees? She brilliantly points out that we must awaken to the ancient indigenous wisdom that everything is alive, is conscious, and interconnected. In
Why Can’t We Be More Like Trees? she inspires a more holistic approach to life through her emerging narratives and gets readers to think outside the box. Judith is so passionate about waking people to an entire new level of consciousness. A remarkable book written so beautifully, it has a healing energy that can be felt through every page.” * Sandra Ingerman, M.A., international shamanic teacher, coauthor of Speaking with Nature, and author *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Heart-Brain of the Forest
2 Finding Our Place in Nature
3 How Nature Heals Us
4 Our Tree Connections
5 Greening Our Stories
6 Seeing with a Greener, More Humble Lens
7 Restoring, Rebalancing, Regreening
Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index
