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Beginning Botany in a New Year – What are plants and where do they come from?
“PLANT BLINDNESS is a modern phenomenon whereby humans walk through their world each day and do not notice plants, nor do they know the name, the physiological, ethnobotanical, herbological or...
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Plant Cells – Deep Within the Temple of Nature
stem cellular structure of the water Milofoil “Plants are all chemists, Tirelessly assembling the molecules of the world.” -Gary Snyder, Introduction, *Pharmako/poeia Why should you, the aspiring...
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Stem and Branches
As they presented the herb to me they told me to drop it on the earth and when it hit the earth it took root and flowered. You could see a ray of light coming up from the flower, reaching the heavens,...
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The Leaf
The Leaf “Oh leaf, you must surely have found strength to force the branch to burst open so that you could emerge. What did you do to become free from the prison? Speak, Speak…” -Rumi A leaf is like a...
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The Flower: Part 2- Pollination and Sex life of Flowers
“Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature’s tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.”– Louie Schwartzberg, from The Hidden Beauty of Pollination After I posted the first...
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The 12 most important deciduous native trees in the Cascadian Bio-region
BIG LEAF MAPLE (Acer macrophyllum) Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they...
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The 12 Most Important Decidious Native Trees in the Cascadian Bio-region
Red Alder (Alnus rubra) During the storm I dreamt of Red Alder. I dreamt that the spirit of the tree was leading me away from danger. Then I woke and saw ruts of the big machines and I cried for the...
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White or Paper Birch (Betula Papyrifera)
Earth’s the right place for love: I don’t know where it’s likely to go better. I’d like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could...
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The Journey
‘And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?’ – Rumi In April 2013 I began a journey that I thought would take me to the Hoh Rain Forest on the Olympic Peninsula, instead the path...
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Into the Hoh
There are places on the earth where everything is in balance. Places where the boundaries between humans and nature disappear. Upon entrance to these natural places the human spirit leaves the cloak...
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