Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Harvey Ussery mentioned this so I looked it up.
paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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The Lost Language of Plants
The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines to Life on Earth
Stephen Harrod Buhner
http://www.chelseagreen.com/2002/items/lostlanguage
The Nautilus Award 2003
Category: Ecology/Environment

Honoring Distinguished Literary Contribution to Conscious Living and
Positive Social Change

This could be the most important book you will read this year. Around the
office at Chelsea Green it is referred to as the "pharmaceutical Silent
Spring." Well-known author, teacher, lecturer, and herbalist Stephen Harrod
Buhner has produced a book that is certain to generate controversy. It
consists of three parts:

   1. A critique of technological medicine, and especially the dangers to
the environment posed by pharmaceuticals and other synthetic substances
that people use in connection with health care and personal body care.
   2. A new look at Gaia Theory, including an explanation that plants are
the original chemistries of Gaia and those phytochemistries are the
fundamental communications network for the Earth's ecosystems.
   3. Extensive documentation of how plants communicate their healing
qualities to humans and other animals. Western culture has obliterated most
people's capacity to perceive these messages, but this book also contains
valuable information on how we can restore our faculties of perception.

The book will affect readers on rational and emotional planes. It is
grounded in both a New Age spiritual sensibility and hard science. While
some of the author's claims may strike traditional thinkers as outlandish,
Buhner presents his arguments with such authority and documentation that
the scientific underpinnings, however unconventional, are completely
credible.

The overall impact is a powerful, eye-opening expos' of the threat that our
allopathic Western medical system, in combination with our unquestioning
faith in science and technology, poses to the primary life-support systems
of the planet. At a time when we are preoccupied with the terrorist attacks
and the possibility of biological warfare, perhaps it is time to listen to
the planet. This book is essential reading for anyone concerned about the
state of the environment, the state of health care, and our cultural
sanity.