CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface: Walking Among Plants vii
4. Acknowledgments xxv
5. 1 The Placial Basis of Plant Sessility and Mobility 1
6. 2 Peripheral Power: Structural Dynamics at the Edges of Plants 17
7. Interlude 1 How Plants Think 39
8. 3. Taking Trees Over the Edge 47
9. Interlude 2 Plants Up- Close: The Case of Moss 71
10. 4 The Shared Sociality of Trees, with Implications for Place 81
11. Interlude 3 Plants from Afar: As Seen in Landscape Painting 105
12. 5 Attachment and Detachment in the Place of Plants 119
13. Conclusion: The Fate of Places, the Fate of Plants 139
14. Notes 159
15. Index 171