I've been reading Stalking the Wild Asparagus by Euell Gibbons. I'm ready for spring foraging...maybe one good snow first...like 14". Quoted from page 288(chapter on medicine from wild plants): For the amateur, there are other thrills in this field. One of the greatest of these comes when, after long reading and study about an unfamiliar plant, you go out in the fields and byways and actually find it growing in it's native habitat. When I first glimpse a long-sought plant, I sometimes seem to enter into the herb and feel it's virtues and uses. I am one with it's long history of healing man's ills and ministering to his comfort. And when I carry the plant home and transmute it into some grateful remedy it has a soul-healing power far beyond anything it might do for my body, and it brings a satisfaction no purchased product could ever provide.