Plants form the basis for almost all life processes on earth and also for the continued existence of human beings – but it seems as if we have lost touch with them. And yet plants provide us with food, healing substances, energy, raw materials for clothing and much more. They deserve to be highly valued, but in our consumer-driven affluent society, nature has been degraded to a product – air pollution, polluted waterways, diseased forests, diminished soil quality and species extinction are the result. With the climate crisis, our connection to plants becomes relevant again. Many people intuitively feel that being with plants is healing – they work in their gardens, wander through forests and gather herbs.
Burkhard Bohne would like to help people become more sensitive to plants. He shows that plants never exist exclusively for their own sake but can only survive and develop if they interact and communicate with other living beings. But do plants also communicate with us humans? And what might a society look like that is organised in a similar way to plants and that recognises it must never consider itself to be isolated from other forms of life?
Burkhard Bohne pleads for more mindfulness in dealing with nature, for more intuition and appreciation towards the cycles of life. Those who turn to plants will view our communal habitat in a different way.
