Comments on: NATURE WILL BE THERE TO DELIVER: An invitation to communicate with plants

By: Plant communication

Plant communication — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:57:44 +0000

[...] will like this article. NATURE WILL BE THERE TO DELIVER: An invitation to communicate with plants – ARTHUR MAGAZINE – … NATURE WILL BE THERE TO DELIVER: An invitation to communicate with plants text and photos by Nance [...]

By: Kimberley Heath

Kimberley Heath — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:55:02 +0000

Nance,
Thank you for sharing your and your friends’ beautiful experiences. I love your writing. I have never experienced a plant speaking to me, but I have felt something calming and reassuring with some.

We had a giant copper beech in our backyard when I was a child. I could climb its smooth gray limbs and then nestle into the place where the trunk sectioned into fourths. During the warm months, I would hide away in the tree, safely removed from the anger and violence in my home, and be calmed by the sound of its rustling leaves and cooing, singing birds high in the branches of other trees around me. I would snuggle against the soothing cool of the tree’s skin and could sleep without fear of falling away from the strong embrace of the beech.

I can’t imagine living without plants. I need to be near them always.

Kimberley

By: Notes from the Editor - ARTHUR MAGAZINE – WE FOUND THE OTHERS

Notes from the Editor - ARTHUR MAGAZINE – WE FOUND THE OTHERS — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:01:57 +0000

[...] columnist Nance Klehm talks to folks who’ve been communicating with plants recently. ‘Nuff [...]

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:43:04 +0000

This is so incredible!
I needed to hear this Nance! I had no idea what plant communication was but I think it has been happening to me.
I am so amazed at this possibility. Right now, I have been trying to make acorn flour and
am making an audio tour about acorns, oak trees, and foraging foods.But the plant that has been trying to get my attention is the Poke weed.
There are several in my yard and I find myself thinking about them and staring at them when I am outside.
After reading this article, I guess I will go and sit with them and see what they have to say.
Yeah Nance!

By: Adam Grossi: Writings » “Pine” and human-plant communication.

Adam Grossi: Writings » “Pine” and human-plant communication. — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:24:07 +0000

[...] Chicago-based artist-ecologist Nance Klem employed my painting Pine as a visual supplement to her short essay exploring humans who develop dynamic, intuitive relationships with plants. I am thrilled with the painting placed in this context. I think Nance asked me because she knows the backstory of the process of that painting; it’s based on a pine tree that was near my graduate school studio. Over the course of a few months, I gradually began working with it simply because I was continuously fascinated by it, and would often stop and stare at it on my way across campus. I’m not someone who has consciously been aware of my communicating with plants in the same sense that the people Nance interviews are, but perhaps it’s just a question of developing sensitivity. Click here to read Nance’s essay on Arthur Mag. [...]

By: spiderlady

spiderlady — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:29:45 +0000

beautiful, nance!

By: melea

melea — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:29:46 +0000

this is awesome! i am so glad to hear that other people are talking with plants. i often tell plants how gorgeous & special they are and thank them for offering their bodies for my & my family’s nourishment, and i’m delighted when they respond.

i have made so many wonderful new plant friends this year! when i dug up all the grass in the yard for a garden, i left some spots empty of seed and didn’t pull many weeds; i wanted to see who would come visit. so far: nettle, mullein, purslane, angelica, catnip, pokeweed, plantain, datura, shephard’s purse, violets, dandelion..all in just six months. i have found that if i invite a plant, and say its name, and make a nice bed for it, it comes on its own. this year, i am making a vow to sing to the garden, in addition to whispering the usual sweet somethings as i drop seeds.

thank you for sharing this, for cultivating friendships with plants, and for encouraging others to do the same.

truly
madly
melea