21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

linkedin post 2020-08-18 04:21:50

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PLANT DOMESTICATION. "A century of research by botanists and zoologists has established that only certain plant and animal species lend themselves to domestication, and has identified the specific problems preventing the domestication of kangaroos, oak trees, and most other species." https://lnkd.in/d4Twb7p View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

linkedin post 2020-08-17 03:45:49

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REALITY CHECK. "It's humbling to remember that our species has, perhaps, been around for 150,000 years. The Neolithic Revolution -- which gave us agriculture, at which time we succumbed to the cult of the seed; the poetry of the shaman was displaced by the prose of the priesthood; we created hierarchy specialization surplus -- is only 10,000 years ago. The modern industrial world as we know it is barely 300 years old." https://lnkd.in/d_uwCcC View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

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INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP. "The direct dependence of hunter gathers on natural ecosystems for their food, and the intimate knowledge of the natural world that this requires, is generally reflected in their beliefs and attitudes toward nature and wildlife. Such peoples commonly view themselves as inseparable from the natural ecosystems and wildlife around them." https://lnkd.in/defU-EJ View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

linkedin post 2020-08-17 03:41:32

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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES from outside of the Western culture have lived with intimate connections with forests and with plants since humanity began. Their views about plant lives, and how the live in close connection with plants, are radically distinct from the Western Socratic perception. View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments
linkedin post 2020-08-17 03:37:50

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PLANT EXPEDITIONS. “As the 18th century became the 19th, ethnobotany saw expeditions undertaken with more colonial aims rather than trade economics such as that of Lewis and Clarke which recorded both plants and the peoples encountered use of them. Edward Palmer collected material culture artifacts and botanical specimens from people in the North American West (Great Basin) and Mexico from the 1860s to the 1890s. Through all of this research, the field of "aboriginal botany" was established—the study of all forms of the vegetable world which aboriginal peoples use for food, medicine, textiles, ornaments and more.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnobotany View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

linkedin post 2020-08-17 03:34:05

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ETHNOBOTANY. “The age of enlightenment saw a rise in economic botanical exploration. Alexander von Humboldt collected data from the New World, and James Cook's voyages brought back collections and information on plants from the South Pacific. At this time major botanical gardens were started, for instance the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1759. The directors of the gardens sent out gardener-botanist explorers to care for and collect plants to add to their collections.” https://lnkd.in/dmU_6jn View in LinkedIn
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