The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines to Life on EarthThis could be the most important book you will read this year. Around the office at Chelsea Green it is referred to as the pharmaceutical Silent Spring. Well known author, teacher, lecturer, and herbalist Stephen Harrod Buhner has produced a book that is certain to generate controversy. It consists of three parts: A critique of technological medicine, and especially the dangers to the environment posed by pharmaceuticals and other synthetic substances