Grass
Autor Julia Rosenen Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 mar 2027
A revelatory dive into the overlooked history of grass and the astonishing ways it has shaped human history
Try, if you can, to imagine a world without grass. There would be no lawns or athletic fields, no meadows or wheat fields, no sweeping savannas or steppes. Gone too would be the countless plants and animals that evolved in grassy landscapes: sunflowers, prairie dogs, bison, lions, and many more. Oh, and there would be no us—at least not as we exist today.
In Grass, award-winning journalist Julia Rosen unfurls the hidden story of humans and grass, illuminating our interconnected and ever-changing relationship. Rosen traces how the plant exploded from ecological obscurity to cover roughly 40 percent of Earth’s land, creating the world as we know it. Grass shaped the evolution of our bodies, minds, and cultures, and even sowed the seeds of agriculture and complex civilizations. Humans, in turn, used grass to remake the planet, transforming native grasslands into breadbaskets, cultivating immaculate lawns, and releasing invasive grasses that threaten to destroy entire ecosystems.
With curiosity, compassion, and humor, Rosen probes this history, delivering a startling portrait of grass and what this humble plant shows us about ourselves. In grass, we can see that humans are not separate from and in control of nature, as Western culture has long believed, but are instead deeply enmeshed in it. Gorgeously written and deeply researched, Grass reveals the surprising lessons grass can teach us about our place in the world—and how we can reimagine it.
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Julia Rosen is an award-winning journalist who writes about science and the environment. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Scientific American, High Country News, and the Los Angeles Times, where she worked as a climate reporter. This book was supported by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and a Knight Science Journalism project fellowship. Rosen has a bachelor's degree and PhD in geology, and she lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and two children.
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A revelatory dive into the overlooked history of grass and the astonishing ways it has shaped our world
The story of grass is bigger than grass itself; it is the story of us and our place in the natural world. From creeping turf and towering bamboo, to rolling meadows, vast savannas and fields of wheat, grass is all around us. Yet despite its ubiquity, hardly any of us pay it much mind as we trample it underfoot every day. But what is perhaps the most overlooked plant is in fact one of the most remarkable, and our casual dismissal of it belies a much deeper, more complicated relationship that stretches back to the roots of our own species.
In Grass, Julia Rosen shows not only how this extraordinary plant exploded from near ecological obscurity to spread across the planet, reshaping the landscape and producing new ecosystems in its wake, but how its rise to dominance enabled our own.