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• The scope of herbal medicine ranges from mild-acting plant medicines such as chamomile and peppermint, to very potent ones such as foxglove (from which the drug digitalis is derived). In between these two poles lies a wide spectrum of plant medicine with significant medical applications. One need only go to the United States Pharacopoeia to see the central role that plant medicine has played in American medicine.

  Donald Brown

  Lying, Plant Medicine, Two

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• People in the U.S. are more cranked up on pharmaceutical drugs than any other culture in the world today. I want people using safer medicine. And that means plant medicine.

  Chris Kilham

  Mean, Medicine, Other Cultures

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• Every herbalist has their favorite plant. Mine is Rhodiola rosea.

  Chris Kilham

  Medicine, Alternative Medicine, Mines

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• Hot Plants enhance sexual experience. They increase sensitivity and make sex more urgent. Men get better erections. Women benefit, too. Your orgasms are like Chinese New Year fireworks.

  Chris Kilham

  New Year, Sex, Men

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• If you or I want to be healthy (whether it's our digestion, our reproduction, our skin, or anything) we have to assume greater responsibility for our wellness. One of the best ways to do that is to be familiar with and to use on a regular basis, plant medicines.

  Chris Kilham

  Responsibility, Plant Medicine, Healthy

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• You need to understand plant chemistry, be inured to discomfort and awesomely flexible. When something breaks down-the plane, the boat, you just have to roll with it.

  Chris Kilham

  Medicine, Needs, Chemistry

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• She was white, perhaps too white. Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest of souls, and when she smiled, revealing her small, white teeth, one might be tempted to say that a rose is merely a plant, and ivory just an elephant's tusk.

  Jose Rizal

  Eye, Elephants, Ivory

  Jose Rizal (2006). “Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)”, p.49, Penguin

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• The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Giving

  Leonardo (da Vinci), Irma A. Richter, Thereza Wells (2008). “Notebooks”, p.344, Oxford University Press

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• Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that among trees of the same kind there would not be found one which nearly resembles another, and not only the plants as a whole, but among their branches, leaves, and fruit, will not be found one which is precisely like another.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Variation

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci".

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• A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with mud collect; weeds settle there, and soon birds have made a nest and are feeding their young among the blossoming water plants. Then the river rises and the earth is washed away. The birds depart, the flowers wither, the branches are dislodged and drift downward; no trace is left of the floating island but a stone submerged by the water; - such is our personality.

  Cyril Connolly

  Weed, Lying, Flower

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.

  Gale Norton

  Animal, People, Bird

  "The Complete Gale Norton Interview". Interview with Alex Pasquariello, www.hcn.org. May 24, 2004.

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• All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating and tormenting themselves and one another. It was not this spring morning which they considered sacred and important, not the beauty of God's world, given to all creatures to enjoy - a beauty which inclines the heart to peace, to harmony and to love.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Cheating, Morning, Children

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• From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food!

  Paul Stamets

  Mushrooms, Matter, Bacteria

  "The Mighty Oyster Mushroom: The Workhorse of Gourmet Fungi" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.

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• If you take any flower you please and look it over and turn it about and smell it and feel it and try to find out all its little secrets, not of flower only but of leaf, bud and stem as well, you will discover many wonderful things. This is how you make friends with plants, and very good friends you will find them to the end of our lives.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Flower, Good Friend, Smell

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• Even to this day, no native Australian animal species and only one plant species-the macadamia nut-have proved suitable for domestication. There still are no domestic kangaroos.

  Jared Diamond

  Animal, Nuts, Kangaroos

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• We live in a society that will send us to prison if we make use of time-honored sacred plants to explore our own consciousness. Yet surely the exploration and expansion of the miracle of our consciousness is the essence of what it is to be human? By demonstrating and persecuting whole areas of consciousness, we may be denying ourselves the next vital step in our own evolution.

  Graham Hancock

  Essence, Miracle, Expansion

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• All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Roots, Vegetables

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.419, Library of America

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• What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with all its might and main, what it is, and makes one and the same impression and effect at all times. All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle's, and of a rabbit, rabbit's. But a man is broken and dissipated by the giddiness of his will; he does not throw himself into his judgments; his genius leads him one way but 't is likely his trade or politics in quite another.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Animal, Duplicity

  "Natural History of Intellect and Other Papers". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1893.

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• The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.

  Raymond Chandler

  Men, Forests, Nasty

  Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.13, Modern Library

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• Adam and Eve and all forms of life, both animal and plant, were created in immortality; that is, when first placed on this earth, all forms of life were in a state of immortality. There was no death in the world; death entered after the fall.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Fall, Animal, World

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• Destroy the seed and the plant will never grow. Man alone, of all creatures of earth, can change his thought pattern and become the architect of his destiny.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Destiny, Men, Earth

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• A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits.

  Andrew Weil

  Beautiful, Flower, Home

  "Healthy Gift Ideas" by Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Eat mostly plants, especially leaves.

  Michael Pollan

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.109, Penguin

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• As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Support, Ordinary, Doe

  Ellsworth Huntington (1920). “The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America”

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• The mere fact that you get a lot of seeds in a packet doesn't mean you have to plant all of them.

  Henry Mitchell

  Mean, Cutting, Facts

  Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.94, Indiana University Press

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