Mark Plotkin quotes

“Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down.”
-- Mark Plotkin

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“Every time a shaman dies, it is as if a library burned down.”
-- Mark Plotkin

Source : "Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest". Book by Mark J. Plotkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 1994.

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“Shiitake and reishi offer a diverse range of potential health benefits. You can take all of these supplements in perhaps eight to ten pills or capsules daily. If you take just three or four of these natural supplements at breakfast and the same number later in the day, you will have substantially increased your energy levels, boosted your immune system, lowered your risk of heart disease and cancer, and strengthened and balanced your overall system.”
-- Mark Plotkin

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“The rainforests hold answers to questions we have yet to ask.”
-- Mark Plotkin

Source : "What's Disappearing From the Amazon - Even Faster Than Wildlife?". TED Radio Hour episode Finite, www.wfdd.org. July 17, 2015.

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“The society based on production is only productive, not creative.”

“I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.”

“One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.”

“A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.”

“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”

Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36

“It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought. I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within the next five to ten years, will cease to be a specialty in medicine and that all physicians will be using nurition as an essential tool in treating disease.”

“Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.”

“In many churches Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone.”

“The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.”

Source : "Alastair Campbell" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2003.

“When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.”

Source : Albert Murray (1970). “The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy”