Plant Humanities and Biodiversity: A Textual Exploration and Reclamation in a Posthumanist Perspective

The objective of this research paper is to identify and find the intricate working out of the agents of plant humanities in selected literary works. This paper seeks to identify the relationship of human beings with plants, trees, the vegetation and the green environment, in a global perspective. As found in literary works and also in the development of plant humanism intricately worked out in various texts, nature acted as a healing agent. The development of plant humanism has been considered from the sense of environmental responsibility that helps retain its sustainability. The selected literary texts allow the observer to consider and analyze the significance of plant humanism that finds an ever growing environmental consciousness along the line of their own development in general. The selected texts, intensely associated with plant humanism, show a way out for those who have alienated themselves from Nature. This paper also seeks to explore the gradual growth and development in the process of creating the trajectory of plant humanism in the British literary output. A close working out of the selected texts reveal an intrinsic view where all the experiences of the world are found to be, not isolated from the experiences of nature but, to seek a way of human development that includes a posthumanist outlook that can maintain a harmony and uphold a balance of human-nature relationship without which none can thrive. Only reclamation of the ancient pristine nature can save the earth and the human beings.