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Diversity and the spice of life.(biocultural diversity)

By Maffi, Luisa
Publication: ReVision
Date: Sunday, September 22 2002

A live language is the highest adventure of which the human brain is capable.--George Steiner, Language and Silence

Life is full of ironies. I was once again made keenly aware of this some time ago on a flight from Chicago, where I then lived, to a botanical congress in Missouri, at which biodiversity and its extinction crisis were to be the central theme. I was immersed in deep reflection about my topic for the congress, biocultural diversity--the intimately, some would say inextricably, interrelated diversity of life in both nature and culture. At some point, I looked

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