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Human-plant relationships --- Plants --- Flora --- Plant kingdom --- Plantae --- Vascular plants --- Vegetable kingdom --- Vegetation --- Wildlife --- Organisms --- Botany --- Man and plants --- Man-plant relationships --- Plant-human relationships --- Plant-man relationships --- Plants and man --- Relationships, Human-plant --- Human beings --- Botany, Economic --- Ethnobotany --- Synanthropic plants --- Social aspects --- Human-plant relationships. --- Social aspects. --- plants and society --- plant conservation --- plant sciences --- biodiversity --- climate change --- environmental economics

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Covert Plants contributes to newly emerging discourses on the implications of vegetal life for the arts and culture. This stretches to changes in our perception of ‘nature’ and to the adapting roles of botany, evolutionary ecology, and environmental aesthetics in the humanities. Its editors and contributors seek various expressions of vegetal life rather than the mere representation of such, and they proceed from the conviction that a rigorous approach to thinking with and through vegetal life must be interdisciplinary. At a time when urgent calls for restorative care and reparative action have been sounded for the environment, this essay volume presents a range of academic and creative perspectives, from evolutionary biology to literary theory, philosophy to poetry, which respond to the perplexing problems and paradoxes of vegetal thinking. Representations of vegetal life often include plant analogies and plant imagery. These representations have at times obscured the diversity of plant behavior and experience. Covert Plants probes the implications of vegetal life for thought and how new plant science is changing our perception of the vegetal — around us and in us. How can we think, speak, and write about plant life without falling into human-nature dyads, or without tumbling into reductive theoretical notions about the always complex relations between cognition and action, identity and value, subject and object? A full view of this shifting perspective requires a ‘stereoscopic’ lens through which to view plants, but also simultaneously to alter our human-centered viewpoint. Plants are no longer the passive object of contemplation, but are increasingly resembling ‘subjects,’ ‘stakeholders,’ or ‘actors.’ As such, the plant now makes unprecedented demands upon the nature of contemplation itself. Moreover, the aesthetic, political, and legal implications of new knowledge regarding plants’ ability to communicate, sense, and learn require intensive, cross-disciplinary investigation. By doing this, we can intervene into current attitudes to climate change and sustainability, and hopefully revise, for the better, human philosophies, ethics, and aesthetics that touch upon plant life.

Ecological science, the Biosphere --- Vegetation and climate. --- Human-plant relationships. --- Man and plants --- Man-plant relationships --- Plant-human relationships --- Plant-man relationships --- Plants and man --- Relationships, Human-plant --- Human beings --- Plants --- Botany, Economic --- Ethnobotany --- Synanthropic plants --- Plant bioclimatology --- Plant biometeorology --- Plants and climate --- Bioclimatology --- Climatic factors --- Effect of climate on --- Effect of climatic changes on --- bioart --- plant studies --- ecology --- eco-psychology --- environmental humanities

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Plant diversity. --- Ethnobotany. --- Human-plant relationships. --- Man and plants --- Man-plant relationships --- Plant-human relationships --- Plant-man relationships --- Plants and man --- Relationships, Human-plant --- Human beings --- Plants --- Botany, Economic --- Ethnobotany --- Synanthropic plants --- Indigenous peoples --- Ethnobiology --- Human-plant relationships --- Botanical diversity --- Diversity, Plant --- Floristic diversity --- Plant biodiversity --- Plant biological diversity --- Biodiversity

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Theoretically, this book develops new insights by bringing together human geography, biogeography and archaeology to provide a long term perspective on human-wheat relations. Although the relational, more-than-human turn in the social sciences has seen a number of plant-related studies, these have not yet fully engaged with the question of what it means to be a plant. The book draws on diverse literatures to tackle this question, advancing thinking about how plants act in their worlds, and how we can better understand our shared worlds.

Wheat. --- Human-plant relationships. --- Man and plants --- Man-plant relationships --- Plant-human relationships --- Plant-man relationships --- Plants and man --- Relationships, Human-plant --- Human beings --- Plants --- Botany, Economic --- Ethnobotany --- Synanthropic plants --- Breadstuffs --- Cultivated wheats --- Spring wheat --- Triticum --- Triticum aestivum --- Triticum sativum --- Triticum vulgare --- Wheats, Cultivated --- Grasses

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Ils ont été sidérés par la présence de l'arbre. Ils ont éprouvé l'admiration, mais aussi l'horreur, inspirées par ce végétal souverain. Presque tous ont guetté, écouté, la parole de l'arbre. Certains ont espéré profiter de ses messages, en faire leur mentor. D'autres, plus rares lui ont déclaré leur amour. L'objet de ce livre est de suivre depuis l'Antiquité gréco-romaine ceux qui ont su « voir l'arbre » : Horace et Virgile, mais aussi Ronsard et La Fontaine. Par la suite, Rousseau, Goethe, Novalis et, en France, Chateaubriand, Hugo, Proust et Yves Bonnefoy, entre autres. Bien entendu, il y eut aussi des peintres. S'étendre sous les ombrages, s'y délasser, y méditer, s'enfouir dans le végétal, s'y réfugier, y grimper... À l'époque contemporaine, certains ont tenté d'incruster leur corps dans l'écorce, en espérant que le végétal ferait croître l'empreinte. À l'extrême, des moribonds ont souhaité que leur ADN soit transmis à l'arbre planté sur leur tombe. On le voit, c'est à une longue promenade que ce livre invite, à la rencontre de l'arbre champêtre, de l'arbre haie, de l'arbre isolé et sauvage comme de l'arbre domestique. Il s'agit ici de l'histoire des émotions éprouvées par des individus qui, au fil des siècles, possédaient les mots pour les dire.

Trees --- Trees in art --- Human-plant relationships --- Arbres --- Arbres dans l'art --- Relations homme-plante --- Symbolic aspects --- Aspect symbolique --- Dans l'art --- Trees in literature --- Symbolic aspects of trees --- Symbolism --- Man and plants --- Man-plant relationships --- Plant-human relationships --- Plant-man relationships --- Plants and man --- Relationships, Human-plant --- Human beings --- Plants --- Botany, Economic --- Ethnobotany --- Synanthropic plants --- Relations homme-plante. --- Aspect symbolique. --- Dans l'art. --- Arbre --- Dans la littérature.