Bountiful

Nature is rich in bounty, full of precious treasure, generous rewards and – in accordance with the Latin root of the word – pure goodness. Yet most of nature’s gifts go undetected, ignored or get squandered. The winged bean of New Guinea contains more protein than cassava and potato, the wax gourd of tropical Asia grows an inch every three hours and reaches maturity in four days, the babassu palm from the Amazon (known locally as the ‘vegetable cow’) can produce 125 barrels of oil from 500 trees, and the serendipity berry from West Africa is 3,000 times sweeter than sucrose.

— Wayne Visser

From Purpose Inspired: Reflections on Conscious Living, Volume 3. Buy on Lulu ↗