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"China has a population that is five times that of the United States but has only one-tenth as much cultivated land; it is feeding 24 percent of the world's population on 7 percent of the world's agricultural land. This small percentage is further diminishing. Due to urban sprawl and the construction of roads and factories, 37 million acres of China's cultivated land have already been converted to nonagricultural use." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"The Tibetan goji berries offered by the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center have been grown in protected valleys in wild and cultivated areas of Inner Mongolia in million-year-old soil where pesticides have never been used. They have been dried and are packaged in a vacuum-sealed bag. In a Phase 1.5 cuisine, the berries may be eaten alone in their dried state as a snack (just a few), or they can be soaked and incorporated into recipes. FLAXSEED Golden flax seed is packed with nutrition and is an essential daily addition to a healthful diet." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"The leaves of young, cultivated trees are used in modern herbal preparations. Two groups of active constituents— the terpene lactones and the ginkgo flavone glycosides—are the most critical compounds of standardized herbal products. Many forms and methods of preparation of ginkgo are available, although a high quality of Ginkgo biloba extract is typically standardized to 24 percent ginkgo flavone glycosides and 6 percent terpene lactones. The actions of these constituents include improving blood flow to the brain70 and to the hands and feet." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"The Red Delicious apple was originally cultivated by a farmer near Winterset in 1880, and to celebrate that fact, the region holds an annual Apple Days festival every Autumn. This is breadbasket America. Madison County, of which Wnterset is the county seat, has almost one thousand farms. There are 61,000 acres of corn and 63,000 acres of soybeans. In a typical year, 110,000 hogs and 23,000 head of cattle are sold in the county.3 The area is famous for its covered bridges. The novel and film The Bridges of Madison County was set in and filmed in and around Winterset." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"It is a blend of four cultivated varieties?Gento, Ostara, Red Gauntlet and Korona—none of which are wild, but all of which have prominent flavor characteristics. One Southern Californian strawberry grower has ambitious plans to replace the rubbery strawberries we eat today. "The first time I tasted a Mara des Bois," says David Chelf, "I was really taken back by the perfume that explodes when you bite into it. It just penetrates your sinus cavity, your olfactory glands—wow. I loved strawberries as a child, but this exceeded my memory of the best strawberry I'd ever had as a kid." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"REPPED: Myth and Dream Whether we listen with aloof amusement to the dreamlike mumbo jumbo of some red-eyed witch doctor of the Congo, or read with cultivated rapture thin translations from the sonnets of the mystic Lao-tse; now and again crack the hard nutshell of an argument of Aquinas, or catch suddenly the shining meaning of a bizarre Eskimo fairy tale: it will be always the one, shape-shifting yet marvelously constant story that we find, together with a challengingly persistent suggestion of more remaining to be experienced than will ever be known or told." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"While the development of a hemp industry is severely restricted in the United States, today industrial hemp is cultivated in many countries, among them Canada, China, Russia, Hungary, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain, England, and Poland. "So what are the benefits of hemp?" you may ask. Hemp Seed When we speak of hemp as a food source, we are referring to its seed. Technically, hemp seed is a fruit, because, unlike a nut or most seeds, it contains no enzyme inhibitors. It can be eaten immediately and is readily digestible. Hemp seed is a nutritional powerhouse." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Hemp had been cultivated for thousands of years, and by 1937, it was being used to produce over 25,000 products. It has been described as the most useful plant known to man. Various sources state that hemp can be used to make virtually anything that is currently made from cotton, timber, or petroleum. Hemp is an easily and quickly grown annual crop, and therefore a perpetually renewable resource. But, this was a problem, as some interests saw it. It threatened powerful business interests in the emerging nylon industry." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Over the years, he cultivated an extended audience for his stress theory in broad-based publications, lectures, general-interest articles, and more." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "Traditional Chinese medicine, he announced, was to be cultivated and celebrated as a "national treasure." In 1957, new colleges of traditional Chinese medicine were founded in Chengdu, Shanghai, Gaungzhou, and Beijing. The doctors assigned to these hospitals worked with officials to sift through the teachings of a range ot previously autonomous schools and sects. Their aim was to extract the most sensible elements in order to create a single tradition stripped of all "feudalis-tic superstitious" beliefs and made consistent with modern science and Marxist-Leninist principles. " - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Regardless of the issues involved in HRT— and they are many and they are thorny—it's pretty safe to say that a large number of people would prefer to use natural substances to manage whatever symptoms they have, especially when some of those natural substances have a good track record of safety and efficacy The Benefits of Black Cohosh Black cohosh is a plant native to the United States and Canada and cultivated widely in Europe. That it has a medicinal effect is not in question; Native Americans used it for a wide variety of conditions, including menopausal symptoms." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Egyptian pharaohs expanded cultivated land and stored more grain. We don't have these options. Instead, we are pinning our hopes on the methods of industrial farming and the promise of biotechnology. Even if we produce plenty of food, the political obstacles to its distribution may be severe. The twenty-first century may confront the paradox of having both more food and more food crises. One item that is no longer a scarce commodity is information." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Long before the first pharaoh, the Egyptians had resorted to limited irrigation to feed a growing farming population, a practice that expanded the area of natural crop land that could be cultivated. Dams and reservoirs also allowed the farmer to retain water in natural flood basins after unusually short flood crests." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Instead of being chemically manufactured, food-grown supplements are cultivated using a live biodynamic growing process. Literally, by growing nutritional yeast in a "super-dense nutrient-broth," you end up with a "living" vitamin/mineral complex that is comprised of a highly complex interlocking system of vitamins, enzymes, minerals, active bioflavonoid groups, microproteins, complex catbohydrates, and countless other naturally occurring food constituents." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"In between lies a verdant strip, cultivated with olive and fig trees and grape vines.16 The climate is temperate. All in all, it was a most pleasant spot for a typical retirement home. There was, however, nothing at all typical about this particular home, beginning with its size. Built to stand comparison with the palaces of Egypt and Babylon, it was enormous, the main building alone nearly ten acres in extent, with walls seven hundred feet long and seventy feet high." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"In cases of general debility, nervous exhaustion, loss of muscle strength, and that all-familiar "brain fog," the ashwagandha plant that grows and is cultivated in India and even the Himalayas is well-known in folk medicine of that region as a traditional treatment of these problems. This plant is regarded in India as a tonic and adaptogen, with properties similar to ginseng. In one study, physical endurance was doubled in participants given extracts of ashwagandha {Withania somnifera).203 Rhodiola." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"When Diocletian was importuned by Maximian to return and end the civil wars, the former emperor famously replied that if Maximian could see the cabbages he had cultivated with his own hands, he would never ask that he "relinquish the enjoyment of happiness for the pursuit of power." most famous battle of those wars earned its notoriety not merely because of its military significance, but as a key moment in the history of religion. Constantine invaded Italy in the spring of 312, and by fall, after winning victories in battles fought outside Turin and Verona, had arrived outside Rome." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "From the moment that the Romans landed in North Africa, Procopius encountered and recorded examples of what he must have tegarded as the corrupting effects of civilization, beginning with the historian's surprised admiration for the Vandals' beautifully cultivated fruit ttees at Grasse—today Sidi Khalifa, and still famous for its gardens. The Vandals may have been barbarians, but they did not live barbarically; a century of African living had produced no military challenges, but it did accustom them to daily baths." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "Egypt was the imperial granary for five centuries not merely because of its farms' productivity, but their location; none of its cultivated land was far from either the Nile or a canal. In the year 540, at the terminus of the ancient world's greatest riverine complex, the delta of the Nile awaited the arrival of a conqueror greater than Alexander himself. CHAPTER NINE "The Fury of the Wrath of God" 540-542 IN 1883, THE Victorian naturalist and writer Thomas Henry Huxley?"Darwin's bulldog" and the world's first self-declared agnostic?" - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Cruciferous Vegetables Cabbage is the world's oldest cultivated vegetable. Different varieties of cabbage grow wild in all parts of the world and have been cultivated by every agricultural society. Cabbage and other cruciferous vegetables, especially mustard, have always been viewed as healthful foods and have formed the basis of many home remedies. At the dawning of the Christian era, some Roman communities banned physicians from practicing and declared people could stay healthy by eating cabbage." - James Scala Ph.D., 20 Natural Ways to Reduce the Risk of Prostate Cancer : A Mind-Body Approach to Health and Well-Being (Get the book.) "Garlic grows wild in Central Asia and has been cultivated for over five thousand years, making it one of the world's oldest cultivated plants. Codex Ebers, a 3,550-year-old Egyptian medical papyrus, provided hundreds of therapeutic formulas, of which twenty-two used garlic. In 450 B.C., about one thousand years after Codex Ebers, Hippocrates considered garlic as one of the most important of his four hundred "simples," or therapeutic remedies. Among the therapeutic properties attributed to garlic in both Codex Ebers and Hippocrates' writings is its ability to stop tumors." - James Scala Ph.D., 20 Natural Ways to Reduce the Risk of Prostate Cancer : A Mind-Body Approach to Health and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"We have effectively impaired the plants' immune systems, and without our chemical assistance, most cultivated plant foods would never reach the ripening stage. By contrast, the wild-growing herbs have retained their immunity and know very well how to survive. They contain potent medicinal substances, which are nothing other than the plants' antibodies. If they are cultivated, too, removed from their natural environment and climatic conditions, their medicinal properties become less potent; thus, they are less effective as a medicine." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "We have cultivated our own dependency on large quantities of external supplies of these basic nutrients. We can easily afford to eat a fresh salad with our meal today because we have "cultivated away" the natural antibodies of the plants and vegetables. This makes them less "poisonous" for us but at the same time also more vulnerable to all kinds of attacks by insects, lice, bugs, beetles, locusts, fungus, and harsh climatic conditions." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Due to urban sprawl and the construction of roads and factories, 37 million acres of China's cultivated land have already been converted to nonagricultural use. Of the remaining 247 million acres one-tenth is highly polluted, one-third is suffering from water loss and soil erosion, one-fifteenth is salinized, and nearly 4 percent is in the process of turning into a desert. Worldwide, 12 to 17 million acres of cropland are lost per year. If this process continues, some 741 million acres will be lost by mid-century, leaving 6.67 billion acres to support 8 to 9 billion people—no more than 0." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"As Borneo's wilderness vanishes, there also exists an array of cultivated fruits so broad that it's impossible to taste them all. At the end of the day, I join Voon and his colleagues at a folk dancing performance in an open-air stadium. The traditional forest dances seem out of place on this amplified, metallic stage. The crowd, wearing button-up shirts and dress shoes, watches the dancing and then stands up to sing along to an anthem." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "In 1882, Swiss phytogeographist Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle published Origin of cultivated Plants, revealing for the first time the distinct places of origin for many fruits. Using a multichanneled approach combining linguistics, philology, paleontology, archaeology and ethnobiol-ogy de Candolle was able to ascertain where the greatest variation in a species was found." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "And with many fruits not cultivated on a mass scale, quality varies widely from tree to tree. All of which is exciting to fruit hunters, but anathema to supermarket supply chains. Fruits have trouble traveling between different temperature zones. Just as temperate berries deteriorate when shipped to the tropics, tropical fruits taste less flavorful in colder regions. Fruits are highly perishable, and weeks of transport only aggravate matters. Commercial fruits aren't picked ripe; they're picked whenever boats are scheduled to depart." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Each burial lay inside an adobe brick burial chamber, one placed above the other in a mortuary platform set among the imposing pyramids that rose dramatically out of the heavily cultivated river valley. Each warrior-priest lay in his ceremonial garb. Their regalia never changed from one generation to the next—elaborate gold masks and crescentlike headdresses that once glinted in the bright sun, cotton tunics adorned with dozens of copper gilt plates, bead pectorals and silver or gold ear pendants with hinged figures of warriors-silver symbolizing the moon, gold the sun." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"The new story—backed by science—is that these same good feelings, cultivated through natural and ordinary means, are the active ingredients needed to produce an upward spiral toward flourishing. Whereas the old story leaves people feeling guilty when they "take time" for something that makes them feel good, the new story can give people the courage to cultivate, protect, and cherish moments that touch and open their hearts. The shift for me was huge." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"In this case, I am referring to wild plants not cultivated ones. To taste a plant, put a small piece on the tip of your tongue and chew for two to three minutes. Plants have primary actions and secondary actions. By allowing time to taste the plant fully, you will receive a taste on the tip of your tongue that indicates the primary action and a taste on the back of your tongue indicating the secondary action. This ability to recognize the subtle differences in taste may take a while to develop, as our modern diets don't venture far from sweet and salty." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

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