The Invisible Harvest Quotes

“Paracelsian taming, intent on breaking them down into mere chemicals and constituents. For, as Janes Hillman suggests, “it was hot when science convinced us that nature was dead that it could begin its autopsy in earnest.”
― Bethany van Rijswijk, The Invisible Harvest: A Microhistory of Heretical Herbs

“The attempted extermination of orally-preserved, shamanistic traditions in Europe- traditions rooted in the direct, participatory experience of plants, animals, and elements- to make way for a dominion of alphabetic reason over a natural world”
― Bethany van Rijswijk, The Invisible Harvest: A Microhistory of Heretical Herbs