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Book of the week Dara Saville’s new book, “The Ecology of Herbal Medicine: A Guide to Plants and Living Landscapes of the American Southwest,” is a revelation of connections – the land, the plants that grow on it, the herbs that humans produce from the plants, and the animals that find nourishment in those plants. It’s loaded with information that can at times be overwhelming. Dara Saville Saville, a longtime Albuquerque herbalist, says the book is in part a manual to develop a relationship with the natural world that she’s been developing for 25 years. Saville wants “to explain tools for reconnecting with the natural world because for me that is the foundation of herbal medicine. … That relationship has brought me a lot of joy and well-being and I want to share that with other people.” ....