Author: Matthew Hall
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438434308
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 251
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Plants are people too? No, but in this work of philosophical botany Matthew Hall challenges readers to reconsider the moral standing of plants, arguing that they are other-than-human persons. Plants constitute the bulk of our visible biomass, underpin all natural ecosystems, and make life on Earth possible. Yet plants are considered passive and insensitive beings rightly placed outside moral consideration. As the human assault on nature continues, more ethical behavior toward plants is needed. Hall surveys Western, Eastern, Pagan, and Indigenous thought as well as modern science for attitudes toward plants, noting the particular resources for plant personhood and those modes of thought which most exclude plants. The most hierarchical systems typically put plants at the bottom, but Hall finds much to support a more positive view of plants. Indeed, some indigenous animisms actually recognize plants as relational, intelligent beings who are the appropriate recipeints of care and respect. New scientific findings encourage this perspective, revealing that plants possess many of the capacities of sentience and mentality traditionally denied them.
Author: Alphonso Wood
Publisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Author: Brian Capon
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1643261681
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 443
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“This should be the cornerstone of every gardener’s library.” —Jeff Gillman, Director of the UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens What happens inside a seed after it is planted? How are plants structured? How do plants reproduce? The answers to these and other questions about complex plant processes can be found in the bestselling Botany for Gardeners. First published in 1990 with more than 260,000 copies sold, it has become the go-to introduction to botany for students and gardeners. Now in its fourth edition, Botany for Gardeners has been expanded and updated. It features a revised interior, with new photos and illustrations that clarify the concepts clearer than ever before. Additional updates address scientific advances, changes in nomenclature and taxonomy, and more. As before, Botany for Gardeners shares accessible information about how plants are organized, how they have adapted to nearly all environments on earth, their essential functions, and how they reproduce.
Author: William Thomas Stearn
Publisher: David & Charles Publishers
ISBN: 9780715316436
Category : Botanique - Langage
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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This reference work explains the grammar and syntax of botanical Latin, and covers the roots and origins of Latin and latinised geographical names, colour terms, symbols and abbreviations, diagnoses and descriptions, and the formation of names and epithets.
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Research Information Service
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Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Author: William Swan Stallybrass (formerly Sonnenschein.)
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Author: Henry Bartlett Van Hoesen
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Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Author: Alfred Rehder
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Author: Alfred Rehder
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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Author: Boston Public Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 160
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