Title: The Secret Life of Plants
Content:  The Secret Life of Plants (1973) is a book by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. The book documents controversial experiments that claim to reveal unusual phenomena regarding plants such as plant sentience, discovered through experimentation. It goes on to discuss philosophies and progressive farming methods based on these findings. The book was heavily criticized by scientists for promoting pseudoscientific claims.
Title: The Secret Life of Plants
Content:  The book has been criticized by botanists such as Arthur Galston for endorsing pseudoscientific claims. According to Galston and physiologist Clifford L. Slayman many of the claims in the book are false or unsupported by independent verification and replicable studies. Botanist Leslie Audus noted that the book is filled with nonsensical "outrageous" claims and should be regarded as fiction.
Title: The Secret Life of Plants
Content:  The book was the basis for the 1979 documentary of the same name, directed by Walon Green and featuring a soundtrack by Stevie Wonder, later released as Journey through the Secret Life of Plants. The film made use of time-lapse photography (where plants are seen growing in a few seconds, creepers reach out to other plants and tug on them, mushrooms and flowers open). The film was originally distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Title: The Secret Life of Plants
Content:  The book includes summaries of the life and work of 20th century scientists Jagadish Chandra Bose and Corentin Louis Kervran as well as 19th century scientist George Washington Carver. The book includes experiments on plant stimuli using a polygraph, a method which was pioneered by Cleve Backster. Parts of the book attempt to disparage science, particularly plant biology, for example by claiming science is not concerned with "what makes plants live", in order to promote its own viewpoint that plants have emotions. The authors further say the authorities are unable to accept that emotional plants "might originate in a supramaterial world of cosmic beings which, as fairies, elves, gnomes, sylphs, and a host of other creatures, were a matter of direct vision and experience to clairvoyants among the Celts and other sensitives."
Title: The Secret Life of Plants
Content:  Christopher Bird was a best-selling author who also wrote The Divining Hand: The 500-Year-Old Mystery of Dowsing. Peter Tompkins worked as a journalist, as well as a US military intelligence officer for the OSS in Italy during the Second World War
Title: The Secret Life of Bots
Content:  "The Secret Life of Bots" is a 2017 science fiction story by Suzanne Palmer. It was first published in Clarkesworld.
Title: Peter Wohlleben
Content:  his book Das Seelenleben der Tiere, which was translated into English and published under the title The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion—Surprising Observations of a Hidden World in 2017. His 2012 book Kranichflug und Blumenuhr, was translated as The Weather Detective: Rediscovering Nature's Secret Signs in 2018. The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things – Stories from Science and Observation was released in 2019. Wohlleben's first book for children available in English was published in October 2019. Called Can You Hear the Trees Talking?: Discovering The Hidden Life of Forests, it is a young readers' edition of The Hidden Life of Trees.
Title: Brian J. Ford
Content:  Cassells, 1999. ISBN: 0-304-35019-2. USA, Sterling Publications, 1999. ; Sensitive souls, senses and communication in plants, animals and microbes, ISBN: 0-316-63956-7. UK, Little, Brown, 1999. ; The Future of food, ISBN: 0-500-28075-4. UK, Thames & Hudson, 2000. ISBN: 0-500-28075-4. USA and Canada, Thames & Hudson, 2000. ; Secret language of life, how animals and plants feel and communicate, ISBN: 0-88064-254-8. USA, Fromm International, 2000. ; Using the digital microscope, ISBN: 0-9543595-0-X. UK, Rothay House, 2002. ; Secret Weapons: Technology, Science and the Race to Win World War II, ISBN: 1-84908-390-8. UK, Osprey Publishing, 2011. ; Too Big To Walk: The New Science of Dinosaurs, ISBN: 978-0-00-821893-5. UK, William Collins, 2019. 
Title: The Private Life of Plants
Content:  The series is available in the UK for Regions 2 and 4 as a 2-disc DVD (BBCDVD1235, released 1 September 2003) and as part of The Life Collection. The extra features include a promotional interview for the series given by David Attenborough on the BBC children's series Blue Peter, and a 'behind the scenes' vignette. The accompanying book, The Private Life of Plants by David Attenborough (ISBN: 0-563-37023-8), was published by BBC Books on 8 December 1994.
Title: The Private Life of Plants
Content:  The Private Life of Plants is a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first shown in the United Kingdom from 11 January 1995. A study of the growth, movement, reproduction and survival of plants, it was the second of Attenborough's specialised surveys following his major trilogy that began with Life on Earth. Each of the six 50-minute episodes discusses aspects of a plant's life-cycle, using examples from around the world. The series was produced in conjunction with Turner Broadcasting. The executive producer was Mike Salisbury and the music was composed by Richard Grassby-Lewis. In 1995, it won a George Foster Peabody Award in the category "Television". Part of David Attenborough's 'Life' series of programmes, it was preceded by Life in the Freezer (1993), and followed by The Life of Birds (1998).

Question: Who is the author of The Secret Life of Plants?
Answer: Peter Tompkins.