Plant History

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    • A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
    • Written by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
    • Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 2018-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 215 ratings
    • Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection inviting listeners to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses....

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    • Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
    • Written by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
    • Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2015-12-27
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,322 ratings
    • As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....

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    • Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
    • Written by: Suzanne Simard
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Simard
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2021-05-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 230 ratings
    • From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery....

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    • Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
    • Written by: Kate Brown
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 2017-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Kate Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the extraordinary stories of Richland, Washington, and Ozersk, Russia - the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium....

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    • Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
    • Written by: Robin Wall Kimmerer, Monique Gray Smith - adapter
    • Narrated by: Monique Gray Smith
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2023-05-02
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things—from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen—provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her bestselling book Braiding Sweetgrass....

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    • Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination
    • Written by: Richard Mabey
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2016-04-29
    • Language: English
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    • The Cabaret of Plants explores dozens of plant species that for millennia have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty, and belief....

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    • How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
    • Written by: Thomas Hager
    • Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
    • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2019-03-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,” which has been used for 10,000 years, Thomas Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, and much more....

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    • The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World
    • Written by: Lauren E. Oakes
    • Narrated by: Ellen Archer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 2018-11-27
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Eloquent, insightful, and deeply heartening, In Search of the Canary Tree is the surprisingly hopeful story of ecologist Lauren E. Oakes' search for resiliency in a warming world....

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    • A Plant's-Eye View of the World
    • Written by: Michael Pollan
    • Narrated by: Michael Pollan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2022-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant....

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    • The History of the World Written in Rings
    • Written by: Valerie Trouet
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 2020-08-25
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Trouet, a leading tree-ring scientist, takes us out into the field, from remote African villages to radioactive Russian forests, offering listeners an insider's look at tree-ring research, a discipline formally known as dendrochronology....

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    • The Remarkable History of the Plant that Took Over the World
    • Written by: Alan Macfarlane, Iris Macfarlane
    • Narrated by: James Adams, Kelly Birch
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2010-03-30
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • From Darjeeling to Lapsang Souchon, from India to Japan-a fresh, concise, world-encompassing exploration of the way tea has shaped politics, culture, and the environment throughout history....

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    • The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
    • Written by: Amy Stewart
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 2013-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Every great drink starts with a plant. Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley. Gin was born from a conifer shrub....

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    • How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses & Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
    • Written by: Thor Hanson
    • Narrated by: Marc Vietor
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2015-08-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • We live in a world of seeds. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite literally the stuff and staff of life, supporting diets, economies, and civilizations around the globe....

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    • A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
    • Written by: Mark Bittman
    • Narrated by: Mark Bittman
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 2021-02-02
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • From bestselling author and pioneering journalist Mark Bittman comes an expansive look at how history has been shaped by humanity’s appetite for food, farmland, and the money behind it all—and how a better future is within reach....

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    • A User's Guide to Traditions, Symbols, and Ceremonies
    • Written by: Lama Mike Crowley, Dr. Ben Sessa - foreword, Gwyllm Llwydd - foreword
    • Narrated by: Michael Ellick
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2023-05-09
    • Language: English
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    • In this user’s guide to psychedelic Buddhism, Lama Mike Crowley presents techniques for Buddhists who wish to incorporate psychedelics into their practice as well as for psychonauts who are interested in the maps of inner space provided by Buddhism....

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    • The History, Wisdom, and Soul-Healing Power of a Teaching Plant Medicine
    • Written by: Sanador Sabio
    • Narrated by: Ross Pipkin
    • Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2022-02-02
    • Language: English
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    • If you feel like you’ve “missed the boat” on the wonders of this healing and teaching plant medicine, think again. Now more than ever, people are taking self-development seriously and want to dive deeper into discovering who they truly are....

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    • The Strange and Sensational History of the Not-So-Humble Houseplant
    • Written by: Molly Williams
    • Narrated by: Molly Williams
    • Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2023-06-27
    • Language: English
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    • From the hanging gardens of Babylon to that fiddle-leaf fig in your living room, houseplants have been humanity’s companions for a millennia. Taming the Potted Beast explores the history of our air-purifying friends....

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    • Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization
    • Written by: Roland Ennos
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2020-12-01
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • “A lively history of biology, mechanics, and culture that stretches back 60 million years” (Nature) The Age of Wood reinterprets human history and shows how our ability to exploit wood’s unique properties has profoundly shaped our bodies and minds....

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    • How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History
    • Written by: Sarah Rose
    • Narrated by: Sarah Rose
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 2010-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Here is the remarkable account of Robert Fortune's journeys into China - a thrilling narrative that combines history, geography, botany, natural science, and old-fashioned adventure....

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