Excerpt from A Manual of Botany, for the Northern and Middle States of America: Containing Generic and Specific Descriptions of the Indigenous Plants and Common Cultivated Exotics, Growing North of Virginia; To Which Is Prefixed a Grammar and Vocabulary
In early life, before our external senses are completely evolved; when we are, in truth, endeavouring to bring them into exercise and use it has always appeared to me a very absurd practice in our schools, to occupy children with studies of an abstract nature, and which re quire faculties to comprehend them that are not yet unfolded.
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Paperback. Condición: New. Print on Demand. This book marks the convergence of scholarly inquiry with traditional knowledge. The author presents a thorough botanical taxonomy of plant life indigenous to the northeastern United States as a means of understanding the role of the region's natural environment in the lives of its human inhabitants. This book draws upon established ethnobotanical studies and incorporates the author's personal research. The book's central idea is that indigenous knowledge serves a medicinal, nutritional and practical purpose within the framework of a traditional lifestyle closely aligned with the natural world. The author's work on this book may prove useful as a reference for ecologists and herbalists, and will likely be useful to scholars working within the field of ethnobotany. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781334001932_0
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