Plant Spirit Medicine: The Healing Power of Plants Book

The writing style is like Carlos Castaneda's annoying dialogue rambling between a student and a teacher. It's a mesh mash of the Chinese 5 elements, a bit about the plants, and other irrelevant topics. The last three interview at the end of the book made it enjoyable.
The author should have just written this as an article and moved on. But writes a book on his education from the Amazonians that plants and nature have Spirits and are people! My God...seriously? It makes me wonder where did some white people grow up to believe nature is dead and inert.

The following are quotes from the Amazon people (not the author):
"There is only one active ingredient in planet medicines--friendship." (Friendship between the plant spirit and the patient)

"...plants have spirit, and that spirit is the strongest medicine. Spirits can heal the deepest reaches of the heart and soul"

"as the plantain spirit told me, they [plants] can do nothing unless they are asked"

"He was describing a certain aspect of the human condition. He was emphasizing the eyes, telling me that the eyes of a person are the key to understanding them, as well as a clue to how much protection I need for myself"

" I couldn't understand who he was unless I could see and sense the spirits around him that were affecting him. Unless we know what powers are affecting a man, we can't really know who that man is"