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Beresford-Kroeger, Diana. The true life of the forest

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Date:

December 2010

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R16853-9-3-E, Volume number: 1, File number: 19

File no. (creator):

19

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5858699

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Beresford-Kroeger, Diana. The true life of the forest
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Date(s):

December 2010

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

1 video file ( .mp4).
1 closed caption file (.vtt).
1 textual document (.pdf).
1 folder of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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File consists of an interview with Diana Beresford-Kroeger titled "The true life of the forest." The interview was conducted by Silver Donald Cameron as part of The Green Interview. File includes video of the interview, printed transcript, and closed captioning file.

From the interview with Diana Beresford-Kroeger: "I used the trick of the seanchai because in old Ireland, in the old Celtic culture that you also are part of, it was very important in the oral history of your country, Scotland, and mine, to transfer important knowledge from person to person and then from generation to generation. That important knowledge was really kind of a key knowledge for survival, for the survival of the Scottish and the survival of the Irish. All of the things that they needed to have and to know and to remember was tied up in this story of the seanchai. The seanchai in your terms and in my terms was an inherited storyteller, coming from the ancient Brehon system, where the lines of the story are inherited from father to son to son to son, down many generations. And they were used as a mobile advertising, almost a form of Internet, throughout the Celtic system for the movement of knowledge from one system to another and the education of people from one generation to another."

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From The Green Interview website: "Topic: Forests."

From The Green Interview website: Dr. Diana Beresford-Kroeger, botanist, medical biochemist, an expert on the medicinal, environmental and nutritional properties of trees, and author most recently of The Global Forest.

Diana Beresford-Kroeger is a scientist, gardener, writer and broadcaster who combines medical training with a love of botany. Raised in Ireland, she now lives with her husband on a 160-acre farm and forest in Merrickville, Ontario.

When her parents died when she was 11, she was taken under the care of a Brehon wardship in the South of Ireland, after which she was raised by an uncle who taught her everything from physics to Buddhism and Gaelic poetry. She was one of only two women among over 100 men to graduate in science from University College Cork in 1963, where she had taken on a "crushing load of studies in classical botany, molecular biology, mathematics, and medical biochemistry."

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For audio-visual recordings of this interview, see IDCISN 607647.

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