The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines for Life on Earth

By Stephen Harrod Buhner

Summarized with permission of Chelsea Green.
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Insights from Rosemary Gladstar, American herbalist and founder of United Plant Savers:

• She has felt an affinity and sense of home in nature from birth.
• Her Armenian grandmother passed on family knowledge of herbal remedies.
• She spent significant periods in her life living at one with the forests, eating only what she could gather.
• She began her life's work by sharing her knowledge of herbs from the corner of a natural foods store. A learning center was also set up so others could share information.
• The landscape of the U.S. has been negatively affected by human housing, pollution, and other changes. We are losing the habitat for herbal plants, as well as their communities.
• Even people who use herbal remedies are affected by this; the herbs they use may not be coming from healthy environments. Her organization was started to help preserve natural habitat for herbs and other plants.

Insights from John Seed, founder of the Rainforest Information Centre in Australia and the international Council of All Beings:

• The Council of All Beings sponsors rituals to help "civilized" humans re-establish their connection with the rest of the beings on the planet.
• We have cooperated with plants all of our existence; they mediate between us and the sun, the earth, and the animals.
• Animals, including humans, exist on the base of plants, which exist on the base of soil and rock. We need each other to survive and thrive.
• One ingenious but painstaking way to renew scarred landscapes is called the Bradley method; carefully remove all species that are not native and allow strong healthy native species to remain and re-establish the ecosystem. It's a slow decades-long process but will return the area to its natural state.
• Reclaiming the human relationship to nature is similar to the Bradley method; discard our learned ideas about science and human superiority and reconnect with our ancient knowledge, piece by piece.

The way of survival is to return to our ancestor's realization that we are part of nature, an equal member of the community.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; . . .
The force that drives the water through the rocks Drives my blood.

-Dylan Thomas, "The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower"

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