History Main / SoulfulPlantStory

* "Attalea Princeps" by Vsevolod Garshin is centered around a single palm tree attempting to break out of its greenhouse. Other plants in the greenhouse do have speaking parts though. [[spoiler: It ends with the tree breaking the roof only to find itself outside with winter approaching. Then the humans decide to cut it down.]]

* The book ''I Love Guinea Pigs'' by Dick King-Smith is mainly just a book about guinea pig facts, but it slips into this at the end when the author mentions that he has a tree in his garden and he likes to imagine that his two guinea pigs "lie peacefully" under it.

* ''Literature/{{Scumble}}'' has a subplot involving a tree that is revealed to have once been a woman whose savvy (i.e. superpower) was [[GreenThumb making trees grow]], but then she got sick and [[MalfunctionMalady couldn't control her powers]], so she [[InvoluntaryShapeshifter turned into a tree]].

* ''Mi Árbol y Yo (My Tree and Me)'', a song by Mexican singer Alberto Cortez. He sings about how he and his parents took care of a little tree and the many experiences he had while both he and the tree grew up.

* Percy Bysshe Shelly's "The Sensitive Plant" describes the eponymous plant's home throughout various times and seasonal changes, right up until [[spoiler: its tender dies and her garden falls into disrepair]]. [[MindScrew Maybe]]. It also says that [[spoiler: death is an illusion of human perception and everything is still alive]]. So it's difficult to say what happened, if indeed anything happened and it wasn't just one big metaphor.

%%* ''VideoGame/AVeryLongRopeToTheTopOfTheSky'': The opening goes:%%Quotes aren't context.
%%-->''Look at this one, Ivy. This is a very special plant, a plant that aches, that loves. It's called a "Mourning Vine." Do you see it, daughter? See the pretty flowers? See how every bud is connected on the vine? If I clip one, I can press it in this book, and it will be beautiful forever... but all the other flowers will wither when it's gone.''

* ''WesternAnimation/{{walle}}'' is basically a rom-com with robots and one major theme in the film is Wall·E's plant that's [[BadFuture one of the few left on a polluted future Earth]].

The emotions could be coming from a number of possible places: maybe the plant is very special to someone and so it's heavily associated with them, which could make for drama if they die or are a LoveInterest or are in danger (especially if they're a [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs dead or endangered love interest]]). Maybe there is a theme about how the area surrounding the plant has changed over time, but [[TheConstant the plant was always there]]. Maybe the plant was planted in honour of someone who died or someone is buried near it. Or maybe the plant itself is in danger of being destroyed, usually by someone who wants to get it out of the way to build something or sell it. The latter types of plot generally have a [[AnAesop moral]] about [[GreenAesop environmentalism]] or anti-materialism. Any kind of Soulful Plant Story might also have a moral about remembering to notice nature or "the little things". Administrivia/TropesAreTools- when done well, Soulful Plant Stories that have a moral make us think, but when done badly, they can seem like [[{{Anvilicious}} preachy]] guilt-trips.

* ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' is basically a rom-com with robots and one major theme in the film is Wall-E's plant that's [[BadFuture one of the few left on a polluted future Earth]].