... destruction of indigenous cultures, human lives, and hundreds of thousands of species of animals, reptiles, fish, insects, and plants, some of which might contain the undiscovered cures to any number ... than the mountains of Java, the seas off the coast of the Philippines, the steppes of Asia, the savannas of Africa, the forests of North America, the icecaps of the Arctic, or hundreds of ... —the standard interpretation is that it foretells the sharing of indigenous knowledge with the technologies of science, the bal-ancing of yin and yang, and the bridging of northern and southern...