An accessible and compelling story of a scientist’s finding of plant conversation and how it all influenced her study and changed her existence.

Within this ‘phytobiography’–a collection of tales written in partnership with a plant–research scientist Monica Gagliano reveals the active role plant life play in genuine first-hand accounts from her research into place communication and cognition. By transcending the watch of plants as the objects of medical materialism, Gagliano promotes us to about Therefore Spoke the Vegetable: A Remarkable Journey of Groundbreaking Scientific Discoveries and Personal Encounters with Plants rethink plant life as people–beings with subjectivity, consciousness, and volition, and therefore having the capacity for their personal perspectives and voices. The book draws on up-close-and-personal encounters using the plant life themselves, aswell as plant shamans, indigenous elders, and mystics from all over the world and integrates these experiences with an incredible research journey as well as the groundbreaking medical discoveries that emerged from it. Gagliano has published numerous peer-reviewed scientific papers on what vegetation possess a Pavlov-like response to stimuli and can find out, remember, and communicate to neighboring plants. She’s pioneered the brand-new research field of seed bioacoustics, for the first time experimentally demonstrating that plant life emit their very own ‘voices’ and, moreover, detect and react to the sounds of their conditions. By demonstrating experimentally that learning is not the unique province of animals, Gagliano provides re-ignited the discourse on flower subjectivity and moral and legal standing up. This is the tale of how she produced those discoveries and how the plant life helped her along the way.