Chinese Quote by Francesca Annis

“In the collision between the remoteness and purity of the rainforest realms and the crassness of consumer culture, the difference is so extreme that…

— Jonathon Miller Weisberger

My dream is to be able to use the technology that was used in Tanzania 50 years ago.

— Renatus Nsangano

This is an extraordinary illustrated collection of Chinese herbsaccompanied by concise and expert comments. Jing-Nuan Wu has succeeded incompiling this most unique and informative…

— Koji Nakanishi

My grandmother was this amazing woman in the Dominican Republic who used to read tea leaves and palms. She would cure people in her…

— Selenis Leyva

The herbalist I met a few times - it was great - she gave me literature about the different processes that an herbalist would…

— Caitriona Balfe

My mother was a midwife and a herbalist, so we would go on these long walks, looking for yarrow or rosehips or whatever she…

— Tara Westover

I have learned so much from India: for instance, the use of aloe vera, which I use, and I find it sad when I…

— Nargis Fakhri

I sailed around Europe and lived with the Karen tribe in Thailand for a month.

— Lily Nicksay

"Herbal medicine's been around for thousands of years!" Indeed it has, and then we tested it all, and the stuff that worked became 'medicine'.…

— Dara O Briain

Finally the herbs come around. The high grade where man a look for me. Stock it by the pound, yeah. When Babylon a come…

— Collie Buddz

When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the…

— Louis Leakey

Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.

— Ernest Hemingway