Humans & plants
Plants are Humanity’s flesh and blood.
Humans and plants share fundamental biochemical and similarities. Since the most ancient times and till about 60-70 years ago, humanity has relied almost exclusively on plants as much for breathing, housing, traveling, tools, clothing and food, as for disease treatment. In fact, humans and plants both derive from the same ancestry line of organic compounds; however, plants are multi-cellular and autotrophic organisms that have hundreds of millions of years more experience in life evolution compared to humans (first plants on earth: ci. 400.000 million years BCE; first homo species – homo habilis: ci. 2.8 million BCE). Plants’ techniques of survival are the apogee of evolutionary knowledge, and it is this knowledge we use to succeed in surviving and restoring health. As such they have been attributed a sacred character in all cultures throughout time, a declaration of their importance for humanity. Plants and their healing power are the main actors in life; humans remain their humble descendants and eternal students.
Plants are earth’s chemists and alchemists, orchestrating the biochemical dance from which all life emerges, and on which all life depends.
Nicole Francis
Indeed, human beings depend totally on plants for our lives, above all to breathe and receive the elements we need so as to perform the necessary chemical reactions that make us living beings.
