The contributions gathered together in this volume analyse the link that humankind establishes with nature, examining the way in which a dialogue has been initiated between these two worlds and how it has evolved. From a geographical point of view, the text takes the reader to Africa, America, Asia and Europe via Brazil, Canada, China, Ethiopia, France, Somalia, Switzerland, Tibet, Tunisia, Ukraine, and the United States, providing a meeting ground between plants and humanity in different dimensions.

• Table of Contents
• General Introduction
• Part One
• Body Care and Soul Care
• Happy in Spirit When They Smoke
• The Circulation of Knowledge on Medicinal Herbs in Paris in the 18th Century
• An Interpretative Essay of the Breton Pharmacopoeia
• Healing through Plants
• Part Two
• L’Ortie dans Quatre Contes
• Seeking the Fern Flower on Ivan Kupala
• From Beauty to Civility
• From Healing Plant to Second “Tree of Life”
• Medicinal Plants and the Myth of the Mennonite Sorcerer
• Part Three
• Worth More Than Gold
• The Ecology and Recent Valorisation of Rosemary in the Northern Regions of the El Kef Governorate in Tunisia
• Aux Frontiéres du Khat
• Nelumbo Nucifera Gaertn
• Abstracts of Articles
• Acknowledgments