![]() And they are responsible for healing us, they can heal us and take off the sickness of the people. Joseca Yanomami (02:19): This is about the land where the spirits we call the Xapiri, they live. ![]() Michael Pollan (02:05): By making the brain temporarily more plastic, psychedelics appear to be a good way to break those cycles. JC Niala (02:00): And whether or not psychoactive plants can help with a mental illness epidemic. Rebecca Latchford (01:52): You go into the forest and you cut down trees because that then demonstrates that it has an economic value to the country and to the people. JC Niala (01:48): We explore what the best ways are to keep forests going for future generations. In this series we’re asking what the plant world can teach us about being human, and in this episode we examine our relationship with woodlands and forests.Īna Maria Machado (01:41): Everything, for the Yanomami, everything is alive, everything has spirits on it. We often want these things faster than they regenerate, and more and more we’re doing away with forests entirely, clearing great expanses of woodland so we can plant more crops.Īll around the world many woodlands have been cleared to create farmlands, but leave land to its own devices and, eventually, woodlands do grow back. The thing is, our relationship with woodlands can very quickly go out of balance. ![]() Paper, rubber, medicines, even mushrooms and herbs. And that’s because they are full of things we use all the time. It’s true that generally, we tend to think of woodlands as wild places, but we’ve actually always lived with them. It’s weird though, because when I visit her now, even though I know it’s man-made, it still feels sort of wild. It took around 50 years, but my mum is now surrounded by thousands of indigenous trees as well as birds, monkeys and all sorts of other plants. It was in the heart of sugarcane country in Kenya, which is usually hot and dry. Remember the family farm that I mentioned in the last episode? Well, around 1980, my parents decided to convert it into woodland. JC Niala (00:08): Woodlands are places we go to lose ourselves.
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