Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

by Jason Roberts

Under no circumstances could a plant be allowed to retain a native name—in other words, a name already given to it by an indigenous culture. “No sane person introduces primitive generic names,” he wrote, adding that “all barbarous names are regarded by us as primitive, since they are from languages not understood by the learned.”

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To exist is to coexist. To be is to be in conversation.

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