Imagine a man without lungs. Imagine earth without Amazon rainforest.

I don’t like the rain forest,” Ragnor said sadly.”That’s because you are not open to new experiences in the same way I am!””No, it is because it is wetter than a boar’s armpit and twice...

Like the burning of the ancient library at Alexandria or the supremely ignorant incineration of stacks of invaluable Mayan codices, the loss of knowledge we are experiencing as the last of the traditional elders pass...

REVIEW: Like a master artisan, Weisberger weaves together threads of anthropology, botany, ecology and psychology in an inspiring tapestry of ideas sure to keep discerning readers warm and hopeful in these cold and desolate times.Unlike...

If science is defined or understood as a mode of seeking knowledge, a means of interpreting nature in a way that can be demonstrated to others, then the plant-medicine traditions of the Amazon as they...

I just have to make it to the Tuichi’ I mumbled to myself, ‘I just have to make it to the Tuichi’.Alone, deep in the jungle, so small and insignificant, pitted against nature, still I...

That evening we sat around the campfire. The clouds that had gathered overhead all day broke up and the moonlight shimmered on the Cocus River. The current glittered a silvery reflection. Nor was the Jungle...

When we came out of the cookhouse, we found the boy’s father, the Indian man who had been grazing the horses in the pasture, waiting for us. He wanted someone to tell his troubles to....