The Lost Language of Plants

The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines for Life on Earth Paperback – March 1, 2002

Author: Visit Amazon's Stephen Harrod Buhner Page | Language: English | ISBN: 1890132888 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines for Life on Earth – March 1, 2002
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• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing; First Edition edition (March 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9781890132880
• ISBN-13: 978-1890132880
• ASIN: 1890132888
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,308 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #37 in Books > Science & Math > Earth Sciences > Environmental Science

A couple of summers ago, in the midst of a blackberry glut, I decided I should harvest some Oregon Grape berries to mix with blackberry for a good, sour jelly. But I needed a whole patch, and a few individual plants were all I knew. Before I got around to looking, I found myself on a walk, huffing and puffing up my favorite steep hill. In the middle, I just stopped - for no obvious reason - and looked up. All around me, in the midst of the salal, was a thicket of Oregon Grape, laden with berries! My brother-in-law and I came back and filled up buckets. The deep purple, astringent berries made a stunning blend with the blackberries, and the jelly set up beautifully. But most stunning, even after we ate it all up, was how the plant showed itself in a place I'd been through a hundred times before without ever noticing it.
Is that language? Maybe not But even if it only meant that I could make my jelly, it did have meaning, and to convey meaning is, after all, the purpose of language. The Lost Language of Plants is a book about meaning: not whether plants speak, or even how they speak, but what they say to us and we to them.
Buhner says there is meaning to Life, and that plants communicate it clearly and fully through their chemistry and biology. In human industrial culture, however, the common values of Life - birth, growth, death, and renewal - have mutated into progress, wealth, and poverty - the trinity of economic growth. As a result, billions of years of evolution are being pushed to favor waste over renewal, and death over Life. Under human control, Life is a mere by-product of a soul-less, cosmic machine that happens to have produced "resources" that we can consume until they're gone or until Life ends, whichever comes first.

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