AtomicQuote

Stephen Harrod Buhner Quotes

Measured with magnetic field meters, the electromagnetic field that the heart produces is some 5,000 times more powerful than that created by the brain.

Stephen Harrod Buhner

Measured with magnetic field meters, the electromagnetic field that the heart produces is some 5,000 times more powerful than that created by the brain.

Tags: biology, heart, love

Fifteen years ago I had an odd dream. In it, a medicinal plant that I was interested in, an Usnea lichen that is ubiquitous on trees throughout the world, told me that while it was good for healing hu...

Stephen Harrod Buhner

Fifteen years ago I had an odd dream. In it, a medicinal plant that I was interested in, an Usnea lichen that is ubiquitous on trees throughout the world, told me that while it was good for healing hu...

Tags: dreams, earth, herbs, lungs, plants, trees, usnea

About Author
Stephen Harrod Buhner was an American herbalist and writer.
Buhner's concoctions have also been marketed by alternative practitioners as a cure for Covid-19. One of these received a written warning from the FDA in 2020 for making such claims.
His book, The Lost Language of Plants, received a Nautilus and BBC Environmental Book of the Year Award. In 2022, he received the first annual McKenna Academy Distinguished Natural Philosopher Award in recognition of his work. His book, Earth Grief: The Journey Into and Through Ecological Loss, also won a Nautilus award. [1]

In a dynamic and self-organizing state, this open-endedness is most pronounced at the point of bifurcation: the critical or singular moment when a system has the potential of entering one or two or mo...

Stephen Harrod Buhner

In a dynamic and self-organizing state, this open-endedness is most pronounced at the point of bifurcation: the critical or singular moment when a system has the potential of entering one or two or mo...

It turns out that Clark’s Nutcrackers use a highly sophisticated form of triangulation to determine cache locations. When they make a cache they visually locate two landscape features in order to tria...

Stephen Harrod Buhner

It turns out that Clark’s Nutcrackers use a highly sophisticated form of triangulation to determine cache locations. When they make a cache they visually locate two landscape features in order to tria...

James Hillman so eloquently put it, It was only when science convinced us that nature was dead that it could begin its autopsy in earnest. A living, aware, and soul-filled world does not respond well...

Stephen Harrod Buhner

James Hillman so eloquently put it, It was only when science convinced us that nature was dead that it could begin its autopsy in earnest. A living, aware, and soul-filled world does not respond well...

Michael Crichton once commented . . . It did not take long before the scientists began to notice that complex systems showed certain common behaviors. They started to think of these behaviors as chara...

Stephen Harrod Buhner

Michael Crichton once commented . . . It did not take long before the scientists began to notice that complex systems showed certain common behaviors. They started to think of these behaviors as chara...

The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the door keeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to. ROBERT BLY

Stephen Harrod Buhner

The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the door keeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to. ROBERT BLY

[W]hen food is placed at the start and end points of the maze, the slime mold withdraws from the dead-end corridors and shrinks its body to a tube spanning the shortest path between food sources. The...

Stephen Harrod Buhner

[W]hen food is placed at the start and end points of the maze, the slime mold withdraws from the dead-end corridors and shrinks its body to a tube spanning the shortest path between food sources. The...