295A: Plants feeling pain

Looking for paperback science fiction collection of short stories (probably from about 1958-65) with a story about plants and trees being able to cry out (at a pitch not audible to humans) when they feel pain. A scientist, who devises a way to convert the sounds to those audible to humans, goes mad when he is able to “hear” the effects of mowing a lawn.

8 thoughts on “295A: Plants feeling pain

  1. Christine

    Don’t know which anthology it was in (other than compilations of his own work), but that story is “The Sound Machine” by Roald Dahl.

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  2. Lisa Houlihan

    This might be a Roald Dahl short story, maybe the one titled “The Sound Machine.” It would be in one of his collections.

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  3. Erin

    That short story is called “The Sound Machine” by Roald Dahl, it’s been published in several different books of short stories.

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  4. Daniel

    Sounds like “The Sound Machine” by Roald Dahl. Instead of mowing the lawn, however, the scientist in the story hears his neighbor cutting roses. It’s included in a science fiction anthology called “Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow.”

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  5. Jeannie

    This short story might be in “Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories for Late at Night” edited by Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Arthur

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