The Green Thread Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of longstanding human perceptions of plants as lacking autonomy agency consciousness and intelligence.The leading metaphor of the bookampampmdashampampldquothe green threadampamprdquo echoing poet Dylan Thomasampamprsquo phrase ampampldquothe green fuseampamprdquoampampmdashcarries multiple meanings. On a more apparent level ampampldquothe green threadampamprdquo is what weaves together the diverse approaches of this collection an interest in the vegetal that goes beyond single disciplines and specialist discourses and one that not only encourages but necessitates interdisciplinary and even interspecies dialogue.