The Normalcy of Nature in Otherwise Odd Times Some people say they fell in love as their eyes met with their partner’s across a crowded room. They describe it as love at first sight. I know what that is like. Stopping at a roadside pullout in the eastern plains of New...

By Dara Saville
Dara is the founder and director of Albuquerque Herbalism and the Yerba Mansa Project. She is also the author of the University of New Mexico Press book The Ecology of Herbal Medicine: A Guide to Plants and Living Landscapes of the American Southwest.
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