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What is Radical Botany

September 12, 2010 by Ellen O'Shea

Radical Botany: Arising from or going to a root or source; Arising from the root or its Crown: radical leaves. Favoring or effecting fundamental or revolutionary changes in the current practices. Developing a new awareness of our place in the natural world.

The Radical Botany blog is a discussion and repository of articles on Plant wisdom. Most of the plants discussed are native to Cascadia- the area from British Columbia to Northern California.

If you are looking for a good teacher for learning about plants, look to the plants themselves. All knowledge that would lead us to live rightly on the Earth can be found with the plants. You only need to possess excellent powers of observation and do what the plants ask you to do. If you know and understand the plant teachers, you will never be hungry, unsheltered or unclothed. You will surely be a person who lives a prosperous, abundant life.

“The loss of connection to plants, to the land, to the Earth, leaves the connection to life with which we are naturally born unfilled. No matter how much Ritalin or Prozac is poured into those holes of disconnection, synthetic pharmaceuticals can never fill them; merely human approaches can never heal them. It is not only plants that are our teachers and healers; not only plants that are among our community of life; not only plants that have a language we have long known. It is the community of life that we are missing.”  Stephan Harrod Buhner – The Lost Language of Plants –http://www.gaianstudies.org/articles2.htm

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Posted in British Columbia Native Plants, Northern California Native Plants, Oregon native plants, Permaculture, Washington Native plants | Tagged Cascadia Bioregion, Connection to Nature, environmental preservation, Ethnobotany, Plant Wisdom | 1 Comment

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  1. on September 13, 2010 at 7:48 pm Ellen O'Shea's avatar Ellen O'Shea

    My new website. I plan to post all the Radical Botany chapters in the coming weeks. This will allow me copy edit every chapter and combine it into a book along with some nifty illustrations of Native plants from cascadia



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