This book explores the endless connections between plants and people, from the superficial to the life-preserving, uncovering just how dependent we are on the botanical world.

Overlooking the importance of plants is easy. They are so embedded in our lives and landscapes that it is difficult to even picture a world without them.

Writers John Akeroyd, Liz Cowley, and Donough O'Brien share a passion for plants. They combined Akeroyd's expertise in botany, Cowley's in literature, and O'Brien's in history to create this book.

Plants & Us explores how humans have interacted with plants through the ages, how plants continue to enable our survival, and how their importance is reflected through culture.

We journey through fashion, language, religion, literature, and more to uncover botanical influences. Even so, the authors remind us, we barely scratch the surface of all that plants do for us.