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Food of the Gods

the Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge : a Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution
Nov 14, 2013dlpond rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
I liked this quote: "The idea that nature might be an organism whose interconnected components act upon and communicate with one another through the release of chemical signals into the environment is only now beginning to be carefully studied." And you also get a new vocabulary word (in use throughout the book) to summarize this concept: "exopheromones". Let's try to use that in a sentence, shall we? How about, "Sitting in the garden, we immersed ourselves in the fragrant exopheromones of lavender and rosemary. The plants seemed to be saying to us, Chill out why don't you."