A lesson to learn at this turn of the 21st century is that it is no longer possible to deny the consequences of human actions for the planet as a whole. A new relationship with plants is urgent. What do we have to learn from them ?Listening to vegetal voices is the first step to vegetating with them. Vegetating is to grow in contiguity with the world, to engage with what surrounds us. This is the common thread of the essays, testimonies and poems gathered here. philosopher, a botanist, an archaeologist and an archaeologist, a farmer and agronomist, an agronomist, anthropologists and anthropologists, social scientists, indigenous thinkers and a poet, who provide an overview of the most advanced research on the relationship between human beings and plants in Brazil, against the backdrop of the political, environmental and economic fields.
Part I Sowing the Land: Ways of Resistance Against Modern Reactionism. Part II Roots of diversity: knowledge of past and present peoples, life stories and places of memory. Part III Plant socialities: kinship, predation, care and affection. Part IV Harvesting fruits: myth and ritual, life cycles and multispecies interactions.
