Food for Thought: Quotations

"You are a beautiful boy," he told the frog.
Above: Horned marsupial frog (Gastrotheca cornuta)

“Ethnobotany can give us a glimpse of the future,” (Ethnobotany 10).

“Coming from an industrial society where plants are primarily aesthetic parts of the urban environment…[one] must undergo a process of reeducation to see an environment shaped by plants and landforms, an environment where plants are an integral part of human lives,” (25).

“Long term changes in vegetation affect language and culture,” (26).

“Other cultures are not failed attempts at being modern, but alternate answers to the question, ‘what does it mean to be alive?’” – Wade Davis

“Of the many species that have existed on the earth – estimates run as high as fifty billion – more than ninety nine percent have disappeared. In light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error,” – Elizabeth Kolbert, “The Sixth Extinction?”, in New Yorker magazine (52)

“Education should be used to animate and generate belief, not just sophisticated doubt.” – Michael Roth, Wesleyan University president