Vegetable “explosion”: why are there so many books about gardens and forests?

When Santiago Beruete proposed Turner Publishing manuscript Horticulture. Philosophical History of the Gardens’ (2016) told him that the Anglo-Saxons were addicted to ‘nature writing’ (‘nature writing’), but not a niche in Spain. Not only was it a huge hit, it was followed by ‘Verdolatría’ and ‘Aprendivoros’, which would soon present ‘A piece of land’. he and german Peter WohllebenAuthor of ‘The Secret Life of Trees’ (Obelisco) has triggered a green ‘explosion’ in bookstores.

What fibers do they touch? Most importantly, those who study the vein agree – from the Italian neurobiologist Stefano Mancuso (“The future is the vegetable”, “The nation of plants” or “The plant of the world”), to the philosopher Byung Chul Han (‘Vida contemplativa’ and ‘Loa a la tierra’), passing by anthropologist Edward Kohn (“How forests think”) or philologist Marco Martella (“A small world. A perfect world”), for example, is the need to abandon the (destructive) central position we occupy in nature. Contact with the plant allows us to experience other ways of relating to the earth and other inhabitants of the planet.

To sew is to sew yourself

“The garden is one of the few sacred symbols that survives in a secularized world,” he says. Beruete. An imitation of a lost paradise. But he also states:simple sewing is an act of resistance, rebellion. Planting saplings is nothing but a stance against obsessive consumerism, the ‘always-more’ madness. And you don’t have to have a hectare. Urban gardens and even balcony pots are worth it. people: “those who see the Earth as a field of consumption and exploitation, and those who have an understanding of a gardener, those who see it as a field in which we should be concerned” ventures out.

“The garden is one of the few sacred symbols that still survives in a secularized world” (Santiago Beruete)

Thus, gardens and orchards become a school of ethical values: patience, humility, perseverance, hope, gratitude”. When they, that is, plants, encounter a problem, they have no choice but to step out of their feet. They collaborate with each other to find the solution. “This is a plant resistance we can do,” says Beruete, and this is also underlined by neurobiologist Stefano Mancuso. It’s happening inside and outside of your body. “The idea that man is superior to the fern is silly. –Emphasizes Italian–. If the purpose of life is the continuation of the species, homo sapiens has been here for 300,000 years and the average lifespan of the remaining creatures is 5 million. Who is superior?”

opportunity to rethink

In line with this, Seix Barral will release it in Spanish in the fall. ‘Sapien Plant’, Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science paco calvo, director of the MINT Laboratory (Minimal Intelligence Laboratory specializing in the Philosophy of Cognitive Science and Plant Neurobiology) at the University of Murcia. “The more we study plants in the lab, the more I see What is important is neither the brain nor the intracranial“, he says. But we haven’t been able to get rid of the anthropocentric vision. Thanks to plants, we can rethink ourselves,” he invites.

and the philosopher Michael MarderUniversity of the Basque Country researcher and author of ‘Philosophical garbage’ (Ned Ediciones) goes further. “When we look at the base of the human psyche, we find the plant at the bottom,” he says. Marder turned his gaze to Aristotle’s “De anima”. vegetative soul -responsible for the basic functions of life: nutrition and food– exists in all living things, but since Plato philosophy has only been concerned with the unchanging, the rest. “The most surprising thing is that we have embodied the crazy dreams of philosophers like plastics or nuclear waste that have become environmental nightmares.” He says it’s time to make a return to Western metaphysics.

“When we look at the foundation of the human soul, at the bottom we find the plant” (Michael Marder)

In this sense, Emanuele Coccia, author of “The Life of Plants” (Miño and Dávila) point out that a plant not only stores the life-giving solar energy in its body, but is also given off by the wastes (oxygen) of its existence. “They give themselves to the other and live with the other without dominating,” adds Marder. “The fundamental relationship that defines the bond between human and nonhuman should no longer be hunting, animal husbandry or farming, but a particular form of gardening,” says Coccia.

Source: Informacion

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