Plants are wonderful living things. They are the only creatures that, in the midst of silence, produce their own food and undoubtedly constitute the greatest source of wealth on our planet: even coal and oil were plant life in the past. Studies and experiments on plant communication indicate that all living beings—man, plants, Earth, planets, and stars—are intimately related to each other—what happens to one of them affects others.

The secret life of plants collects a series of achievements and findings related to the plant world made by various researchers, exposing the different physical, emotional and spiritual relationships that occur between plants and man. Through its pages we discover that plants can be reliable lie detectors and effective ecological sentries, that they have the ability to adapt to human desires and even communicate with man, respond to music or have important healing powers. Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird suggest that the most momentous revolution, the one that could save or destroy the planet, can come from our garden.