The Lost Language of Plants

Besides being a love poem to plant life on earth and the amazing chemistry of the love language that all plants speak to each other and to Homo sapiens, Buhner’s book takes an unflinching view of the serious threat posed by pharmaceuticals and chemicals that have permeated our ecosystem. From the waste spewed by their manufacture to their entrance into city water systems, we are ingesting unwanted chemicals all around us. When the plants regulating our environment are sensitive to the part per trillion level, a small change can have catastrophic consequences.

“The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines to Life on Earth” by Stephen Harrod Buhner, Chelsea Green Publishing 2002, ISBN 9781890132880, Paperback, 325 pages, $19.95 USD