Why is movement unnecessary for plants? How does a stationary organism reproduce and defend itself? Why are plants asymmetrical and lack a stable size? Why are some practically immortal?

Why is cloning a common natural phenomenon in the plant world? By what mechanism do plants manage to exploit a practically inexhaustible, extraterrestrial source of energy? In what way do they regulate the composition of the Earth's atmosphere, the hydrological cycle, the flow of matter and energy, and ultimately, the climate?

Why did plants not experience mass extinctions in the past, like animals did? How do plants perceive the living and non-living world, and how do they communicate with each other? Are plants, ultimately, intelligent organisms?

These are some of the questions addressed in this book, in an effort to convince the reader that it is wrong to consider plants simple organisms without apparent behavior and intelligence, and therefore without particular interest. In reality, readers will be as pleasantly surprised as Alice was when she fell down the rabbit hole to find herself in a world so different from our own.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]