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Sep 12, 2019
"We're all--trees, humans, insects, birds, bacteria--pluralities. Life is embodied network." --David George Haskell
The True Life of the Forest
Dr. Diana Beresford-Kroeger, botanist, medical biochemist, writer and broadcaster, combines medical training with a love of botany. She is an expert on the medicinal, environmental and nutritional properties of trees, and author most recently of The Global Forest. When her parents died, she was raised by an uncle who taught her everything from physics to Buddhism and Gaelic poetry. She was one of only two women to graduate in science from University College Cork in 1963, where she had taken on a "crushing load of studies in classical botany, molecular biology, mathematics, and medical biochemistry". She shares more in this fascinating interview.
BE THE CHANGE
Dr. Beresford-Kroeger tells us that in the old Celtic tradition it was necessary to pass on important knowledge from person to person and generation to generation. What do you know, what have you learned, that's really important to pass on, and how would you go about sharing it with family and friends?
