She told him that he should remain in the forest, refrain from eating and then drink a hallucinogenic brew called Ayahuasca, which he had already experimented with among the indigenous peoples of the jungle. ... Mota de Mela believed that his mission was to take the Santo Daime a step a further and create an entirely self-sufficient community deep in the jungle. ...
Tropical Rain Forests Weather and Climate 3:00-3:50 MWF Although a tropical rain forest is merely described as a region of tall trees with year-round warmth and plentiful rain, the definition goes much deeper. Tropical rain forests, jungles that receive at least eighty inches of rain in a year, main...
Tropical Rain Forests Weather and Climate 3:00-3:50 MWF Although a tropical rain forest is merely described as a region of tall trees with year-round warmth and plentiful rain, the definition goes much deeper. Tropical rain forests, jungles that receive at least eighty inches of rain in a year, main...
By the nineteenth century, the transfer of exotic plants and the search for wild plants that might be domesticated were activities that were becoming rationalized and organized and put at the service of industrial capitalism. Collectors were sent from Europe to the farthest reaches of the earth in search of unknown species that might serve as raw material, remedy, or ornament . This enterprise, even though it was the expression of scientific and state bureaucracies, nevertheless partook of romance: It was a quest for the rare, the precious, and the danger-scented. Of all the great feats...
