Plants are our Family. The plants have long been our teachers and healers. The Cherokee and Creek understood this long ago. It was said among them that the plants took pity on the suffering of their offspring, the human beings, and that each plant offered up a remedy to heal one of the diseases of humankind. There is deep wisdom in this. Understanding ourselves to be offspring, the children, of the plants, naturally engenders a familial bond. It shifts the focus of our relationship from one of plants as resources to them being senior, caring members of the same family. More than that, the power lies with the plants, not with us. We are their children, they are not our property. As with all children, when we hurt, the nature of their relationship to us leads them to want to help us. When the ancient Greeks named certain plants Ambrosias - givers of life - this is something they understood. By Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Lost Language of Plants from: gaianstudies.org/articles2.htm
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:14:01 +0000
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