A review by liil
The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination by Richard Mabey

4.0

The Cabaret of Plants is a book about the amazing plants and their independence of people. It tells about the oldest plants, about the history of plants, the discovery of plants, about the amazing things plants can do such as react, hold a memory and adapt to their surroundings. This book is well written, tells about plants in as though they each have their own story and it is just fascinating!

With some of the plants I wished Mabey would have gone more in depth rather than telling his own history and reflections, and I would have loved to read about a bigger variety of plants, but still it was a wonderfully interesting read.