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  • From: Harvey Ussery <huboxwood@earthlink.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] The Lost Language of Plants
  • Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:54:12 -0400


-- > 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

Thanks for posting the link and description, Paul. This could indeed be "the most important book you will read this year." (Buhner has a number of other excellent books on related topics as well.)

The stuff about contamination of the environment with pharmaceuticals and antibiotics is must-read information. Incredible info on communication between plants and their environments. As the review said, some of the ideas presented will come on to many people as pretty "woo-woo," but one thing I like about Buhner is his capacity to find and absorb an incredible amount of hard science to back up the more integrated vision of the world he presents.

One warning, though: There is serious danger of becoming a thorough-going nature mystic if you start reading Buhner. I've been doing so a couple of years now, and I spend more and more time talking to plants. (Don't tell Paul--he might throw me off the list!)

~Harvey

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Harvey in northern Va
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"Earth's plant communities have been doing their job for at least 500 million years; only extreme hubris would lead us to believe we could do a better job through an agricultural science not even one hundred years old." ~Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Lost Language of Plants




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