Eco-ethno-botany.
This blog is dedicated to everyone who has an interest in plants, people and their interactions with the world as a whole. Some names I would like to have on my dedication list follows:Theophrastus, Pliny the Elder, Valerius Cordus, Carl Nilsson Linnæus, Alexander von Humboldt, Asa Gray, Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov, John W. Harshberger, Richard Evans Schultes, and Wade Davis to name a few.
More personal influences I would like to acknowledge are:
My father, mother, grandparents, Don Elliot, Harvey ?, Craig Tomkow, Dr. Alan Rebertus, Dr. Donna Becker, and Carlos Ramirez-Sosa.
The topics to be discussed will have a tie in with botany, anthropology, ecology, natural history and agriculture. Food will be a frequent topic, as it is humanity's most important connection with plants. Without the sustenance from plants society could not exist. I hope to introduce many vegetables and herbs that will be unfamiliar to most readers.
Plants served as man's first medicines and the majority of medicines today are derived from plant sources. Long before aspirin Hippocrates wrote of powdered willow bark and digoxin is still extracted from foxgloves. I hope to point out a modern nexus with traditional plant knowledge. Plants provide us shelter from the cloths on our backs and the roofs over our heads. There is good chance that a wooden utility pole is helping transmit this information to you now. Plants have aesthetic value as formal gardens and the inspirations of art. My goal is to increase awareness and appreciation of the role of plants in human life ancient, modern and future.
People and plants have been intertwined since our origins. Far back in prehistory, humans learned to recognize the beneficial from the harmful and the stimulating from the sedating.
Throughout history we have depended on plants and our relationship will continue to grow as new uses for known species are discovered. Undiscovered plant species may bear fruit for mankind, sustenance which yet remains undreamt.
I invite you to visit, read and interact with the Eco-ethno-botany blog periodically and observe how plants play a role in your life.
Plants served as man's first medicines and the majority of medicines today are derived from plant sources. Long before aspirin Hippocrates wrote of powdered willow bark and digoxin is still extracted from foxgloves. I hope to point out a modern nexus with traditional plant knowledge. Plants provide us shelter from the cloths on our backs and the roofs over our heads. There is good chance that a wooden utility pole is helping transmit this information to you now. Plants have aesthetic value as formal gardens and the inspirations of art. My goal is to increase awareness and appreciation of the role of plants in human life ancient, modern and future. People and plants have been intertwined since our origins. Far back in prehistory, humans learned to recognize the beneficial from the harmful and the stimulating from the sedating.
Throughout history we have depended on plants and our relationship will continue to grow as new uses for known species are discovered. Undiscovered plant species may bear fruit for mankind, sustenance which yet remains undreamt.
I invite you to visit, read and interact with the Eco-ethno-botany blog periodically and observe how plants play a role in your life.
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