植物
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World Goodreads
Random House 2018 - 8
Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?
Traces: The Memoir of a Forensic Scientist and Criminal Investigator Goodreads
作者: Patricia Wiltshire Blink Publishing 2019 - 7
Professor Patricia Wiltshire will take you on a journey through the fascinating edgeland where nature and crime are intertwined. She'll take you searching for bodies of loved ones - through woodlands, along hedgerows, field-edges, and through plantations - solving time since death, and disposal of remains, from ditches to living rooms. She will give you glimpses of her own history: her loves, her losses, and the narrow little valley in Wales where she first woke up to the wonders of the natural world. Pat will show you how her work with a microscope reveals tell-tale traces of the world around us, and how these have taken suspects of the darkest criminal activities to court.

From flowers, fungi, tree trunks to car pedals, walking boots, carpets, and corpses' hair, Traces is a unique book on life, death, and one's indelible link with nature.
那些植物教我,關於活著的事:春花媽與藥輪植物的人生對話與冥想練習【作者親簽版】 博客來
作者: 春花媽 日出出版 2024 - 6


你想像過植物是如何看待「活著」嗎?
你想聽聽植物對「愛」或「喜歡」的感覺嗎?

  ▌「作家/主持人」曾寶儀、「日本樹木醫」詹鳳春專文推薦
  ▌戴上植物濾鏡,體驗全然不同的生命經驗及尺度
  ▌結合藥輪系統與神話、傳說、故事,讓植物的樣貌跟個性更立體
  ▌來自植物的生命提問與專屬植物冥想練習

  ▌願你也能看見那片環繞在身邊的綠
  跟植物們聊天的感受很不一樣。
  一株植物也有會自己不同部位的理解與感受,
  所以同一陣風、同一段水,
  他們也會用自己的方式接受,
  然後允許自己有不同的接收方式。
  他們尊重自己的身體與感受,
  與同樣擁有很多細胞與感覺的我們截然不同。

  我常常問他們:「為什麼可以活得這麼有滋味?」

  關於他們的答案,
  這本書有一些解答,也有一些陪伴,
  希望你可以給我們機會,
  讓他們的綠意也蔓延到你心裡自在的居所。

  ▌向植物學習,他們如此堅定地在生命中存在著
  在生活中遭遇的煩惱,對於人生道路的迷惘,
  想探進內心更認識自己,想更有勇氣面對世界……
  聽聽來自植物的提問,練習一下從植物出發的冥想,
  或許可以豁然開朗,或許可以會心一笑,
  或許可以從中獲得自我療癒的力量。

  「如果你跟我一樣,你會專心在自己身上,不管你是什麼樣貌,知道太陽在哪裡,知道對自己喜歡的事情充滿熱情,你不就可以好好活著了嗎?」──向日葵
  
  「不同的時間變化不同的姿態與顏色,但是我們終究是我們自己,只要我們認得自己,變化之於我們,不就是跟環境與時間遊戲的方式嗎?」──甜草

  「生活就不難,因為本來就不難,難的只是你分心去想別的事情,還以為那是對的事情。」──柳蘭

名人推薦

  「這本書像一份禮物,植物透過春花媽送給你的禮物。讓你明白,在你努力尋找大家口口聲聲說的「意義」前,不如就先好好當個人,好好活著。」──作家/主持人.曾寶儀

  「春花媽以易懂的描述呈現了植物的思維,探討了植物生存所面臨的考驗,更感受植物知性的一面,引發諸多深刻的思考。」──日本樹木醫.詹鳳春