New York Timesbestseller A Barnes Noble Best Book of the Year A masterpiece of science writing. Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass Mesmerizing, world-expanding, and achingly beautiful. Ed Yong, author of An Immense World Rich, is vital, and full of surprises. Read it Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky and The Sixth Extinction A brilliant must-read. This book shook and changed me. David George Haskell, author of Sounds Wild and Broken, The Songs of Trees, and The Forest Unseen Award-winning Atlantic staff writer Zo Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom, destabilizing not just how we see the green things of the world but also our place in the hierarchy of beings, and maybe the notion of that hierarchy itself.( The New Yorker)It takes tremendous biological creativity to be a plant. To survive and thrive while rooted in a single spot, plants have adapted ingenious methods of survival. In recent years, scientists have learned about their ability to communicate, recognize their kin and…