Evidence now supports the vision of the poet and the philosopher that plants are living, breathing, communicating creatures, endowed with personality and the attributes of soul. It is only we, in our blindness, who have insisted on considering them automata’.
‘Plant Life Magnified a Hundred Million Times’, containing a moving and vivid account of the pioneering work of the late Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose in this vital field between eight and five decades ago. The authors present, in the opening paragraph, the Bose Institute in Calcutta as the ‘Indian Temple of Science. Bearing the inscription: ‘This temple is dedicated to the feet of God for bringing honour to India and happiness to the world
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