A quoi pensent les plantes ? (What are plants thinking about?) then Penser comme un arbre (Think like a tree) by Jacques Tassin chez Odile Jacob october 2016 and may 2018.

These two books by the same author are exciting because they show the evolution of thought among scientists on this topic of plant intelligence. In two years, the speech was very nuanced.

In 2016, Jacques Tassin showed us how sensitive plants are, alive but totally foreign and incomprehensible to ordinary people. Speaking about Intelligence It was very dangerous, tackling human ideas about an extraterrestrial world. We needed the intermediary of scientists (a little shaman) to decipher their world.

Since then, discoveries about plants and their popularization have changed the frame of thought. The second very beautiful book, thinking like a tree, if it still does not cross the yellow line, is in total empathy with the plant world. So much so that one wonders if Jacques Tassin, still refusing to speak of intelligence, does not be wary of himself, because all his book tends towards this idea.  Must we break the deadlock and come out on top? And like Francis Hallé, change the definition of intelligence so that it covers both men, animals and plants? And finally, beyond this debate on intelligence, is not the main thing to discover that plants are in any case incredibly sensitive, mobile and communicating?