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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] The Lost Language of Plants
  • Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:26:26 -0600


You talk to plants? Hmmm. Well, my partner Barb does too and she tells me
the plants talk back. It's in her immigrant Italian family background,
along with informal planting methods and sensible companion planting.
What's old is new, not mysticism but the experience of endless generations
(her mother's town church in southern Italy has family records that go back
900 years). To her, Buhner isn't radical or controversial at all. He just
overcharges ;-)

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 6/1/2007 at 1:54 PM Harvey Ussery wrote:

>-- > Harvey Ussery mentioned this so I looked it up.
>> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>> ----------------------------------------
>>
>> 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
>
>--
>Harvey in northern Va
>www.themodernhomestead.us
>
>"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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