Pharmako/Poeia Quotes

“Every plant is an individual.

Wrong again. We are not individuals at all, we are all connected. We are individuals the way each blossom on an apple tree is an individual.”
― Dale Pendell, Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft

“The Buddha taught that all life is suffering. We might also say that life, being both attractive and constantly dangerous, is intoxicating and ultimately toxic. 'Toxic' comes from toxicon, Pendell tells us, with a root meaning of 'a poisoned arrow.' All organic life is struck by the arrows of real and psychic poisons. This is understood by any true, that is to say, not self-deluding, spiritual path.”
― Gary Snyder, Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft

“The here and the beyond are enough, but there were a few angels for whom it was not enough: who demanded a third dimension--who sought fusions, communes, who ate each other and created sex.”
― Dale Pendell, Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft