The revolutionary genius of plants, Stefano Mancuso, Atria. 2019

S. Mancuso, a great biologist, highlights the lessons that humans could learn from plants, about water treatment, architecture or democracy. An evolutionary, even revolutionary vision of the balance of living things.

The first difficult observation is that humans are totally dependent on plants. Despite this, we do not know much about them. For us, they are like a landscape.

However, plants are alive, see, hear, smell, communicate, attack, defend themselves and manipulate. But above all, plants have an extremely efficient operating mode, linked to their immobility, favoring the decentralization of organs and senses. An organization that allows to survive extremely difficult environmental and predation conditions.

A surprising book, full of ideas, as disturbing as when Copernicus explained in the 15th century that the earth revolves around the Sun and not the opposite!