Scott Slovic Knowing Place Through Plants: A Week-long Series of Observational and Writing Exercises Botanical Writing Exercises English 316: Environmental Writing Semester in the Wild Program, University of Idaho Taylor Wilderness Field Station, Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness Preparatory Group Activity Spend two hours together in the library at the Taylor Wilderness Field…
Juan Carlos Skewes Vodanovic In my anthropology courses, trees and plants take on a relevance that is unknown to most of my students. How can I bring them closer to the life of plants and, particularly, to the life of plants and humans with whom they interact? What does the Microcosm give me? The possibility…
Jill Scott As an artist, I have not really worked with Native American plants but with microscopy, science, art and medical knowledge from Ethnobotany from Europe and Australia. Generally, I am fascinated about how people of a particular culture and region make use of their Indigenous native plants. How have these plants provided medicine and how are they harvested? How…
Dana Sawyer For vast millennia before the advent of science, we, as a species, connected to the natural world through art and music, much of it related to sacred plants, which is not to suggest that science can’t do the same. Connection is what matters most and whatever gets us to that realization is what…
Juan G. Sánchez Martínez When I dive into Microcosms: A Homage to Sacred Plants of the Americas (Jill Pflugheber & Steven F. White), I discover that this is no longer the time of that false dichotomy between technology and ancestry. On the contrary, we are in the time of the bridge between native and Eurocentric…
John Charles Ryan Jill Pflugheber and Steven F. White’s Microcosms is a dynamic, multifaceted resource that I include in my teaching of interdisciplinary plant studies. Since the release of the project, I’ve been thrilled to incorporate Microcosms into my pedagogy at the intersection of Indigenous studies, environmental humanities, plant humanities, and digital humanities. This portal…
Jorge Riechmann In an interview in the magazine Cáñamo, when the Spanish poet Antonio Orihuela was asked why the left has often condemned the use of drugs as an alienating practice, he responded: “Perhaps due to the ideological puritanism from which class struggle has been approached since the 19th century. The working class, as opposed…
Laura Barbas Rhoden Microcosms is a digital space of mesmerizingly beautiful images of plants — plants that beckoned the researchers and invite us, too, to consider the worlds these plants hold, the histories they shaped, and what our entangled futures may be. Laura Barbas Rhoden, Professor of Spanish, Wofford College and Immediate Past President (2022), Association…
Mark Plotkin Just when you think that the only way to see these sacred plants in an entirely new way is to ingest them, along comes Microcosms which is guaranteed to offer a perspective you have never seen before in a unique marriage of biology, technology, art and entheogen! Mark Plotkin, Ethnobotanist, Co-Founder and President, The…
Andrea Pantoja I have been able to explore the Microcosms website and I want to highlight some aspects that I consider important and valuable for the study and understanding of the role played by plants of power, not only in social life but also in the planetary ecosystem. First, the images presented, from a microscopic…
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