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... plants like the cultivated straw- berry and the boysenberry , all our present domestic plants and animals are neolithic end - products . Civilized man has refined the early breeds , quantitatively increased their productivity of food ...
... plants like the cultivated straw- berry and the boysenberry , all our present domestic plants and animals are neolithic end - products . Civilized man has refined the early breeds , quantitatively increased their productivity of food ...
Page 136
... Plants , Man and Life ' that " there are five natural sources of caffeine , tea , coffee , the cola plant , cacao ... plants : but rather an insight into soils , seasonal successions , climatic changes , plant nutriments , water supply ...
... Plants , Man and Life ' that " there are five natural sources of caffeine , tea , coffee , the cola plant , cacao ... plants : but rather an insight into soils , seasonal successions , climatic changes , plant nutriments , water supply ...
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... plants of man had already been domesticated , and some food plants like Camelina , ' gold of pleasure , ' which have now dropped out of cultivation , were then used for oil . Flax , too , may have been grown for vegetable oil ( linseed ) ...
... plants of man had already been domesticated , and some food plants like Camelina , ' gold of pleasure , ' which have now dropped out of cultivation , were then used for oil . Flax , too , may have been grown for vegetable oil ( linseed ) ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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