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The translator notes that 'the autumn crocus, which blossoms in autumn while its leaves and seed pods do not appear until the following spring, is called in German "Die Zeitlose" (the timeless one).' Here I could not du better than follow closelv the work of my friend, the landscape painter Friedrich, and tell faithfully the story of the development of our own nature as it is depicted by him in the four seasons of the year and the four stages of human life. - Harrison Wood Gaiger, Art in Theory 1648 1815
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wasimukamba or Graman Quassi (also spelled Quacy, Kwasi and Quasi) (1692 – 12 March 1787 in Paramaribo) was a Surinamese healer, botanist, slave and later freedman of the 18th century, who is today best known for having given his name to the plant genus Quassia.[1]
Ethnopharmacological relevance: Quassia amara L. recently came into the spotlight in French Guiana, when it became the object of a biopiracy claim. Due to the numerous use records throughout the Guiana shield, at least since the 18th century, a thorough investigation of its origin seemed relevant and timely. In the light of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Nagoya protocol, questions about the origin of local knowledge are important to debate.
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Maat or Maʽat (Egyptian: mꜣꜥt /ˈmuʀʕat/, Coptic: ⲙⲉⲓ)[1] refers to the ancient Egyptian concepts of truth, balance, order, harmony, law, morality, and justice. Maat was also the goddess who personified these concepts, and regulated the stars, seasons, and the actions of mortals and the deities who had brought order from chaos at the moment of creation. Her ideological opposite was Isfet(Egyptian jzft), meaning injustice, chaos, violence or to do evil.
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"What do we give back, for example, to the objects of our sci ence, from which we take knowledge? Whereas the farmer, in bygone days, gave back, in the beauty that resulted from his stew ardship, what he owed the earth, from which his labor wrested some fruits. What should we give back to the world? What should be written down on the list of restitutions?" - Serres, Natural Contract
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botanical garden Schatzalp
#site History of the Alpinum Schatzalp Davos AlpinumThe first botanical garden on the Schatzalp - then called "Alpineum" - was established in 1907. The Schatzalp was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients in Davos. Less mobile patients were given access to the beauty of the alpine flora during their long stays at the cure. With the decline of the sanatorium era in the 1950s, the grounds became overgrown, Schatzalp was converted into a hotel, and later the south-facing valley was turned into a botanical garden (1968 to 1972). In more recent times, various small gardens have also been created. The garden area also includes the area in front of and behind the hotel, the restored "Old Alpinum", the "Thomas Mann Square" and the "New Alpinum" leading steeply into the mountains in the northwestern part of the Schatzalp area (forest park). This part of the garden is today supported by the association "Freunde Botanischer Garten Alpinum Schatzalp", founded in 1972.
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biopiracy
The term biopiracy was coined by Pat Mooney,[33] to describe a practice in which indigenous knowledge of nature, originating with indigenous peoples, is used by others for profit, without authorization or compensation to the indigenous people themselves.[34] For example, when bioprospectors draw on indigenous knowledge of medicinal plants which is later patented by medical companies without recognizing the fact that the knowledge is not new or invented by the patenter, this deprives the indigenous community of their potential rights to the commercial product derived from the technology that they themselves had developed.[35] Critics of this practice, such as Greenpeace,[36] claim these practices contribute to inequality between developing countries rich in biodiversity, and developed countries hosting biotech firms.[35]
In the 1990s many large pharmaceutical and drug discovery companies responded to charges of biopiracy by ceasing work on natural products, turning to combinatorial chemistry to develop novel compounds.[33]
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