When we use plants as medicine it is important not to just think of them as substances, but as people who are helping us. Being with the plants in this way is being in relationship with them. Not a relationship that is going to last five minutes, but a lifetime of relationship with the plant nation, the plant people. We all are capable of knowing the plants intimately and learning from them how to use their medicines.

~ Doug Simons

Spring Hills and Lupine at Dusk, De Anza Trail, Gabilan Mountains, Southern Santa Clara Valley, CA – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission