title: "The Civilized Jungle": Tropical Plants, Facts & Fun - From Ola Brisa Gardens - Volume II (Volume 2)
author:  Tommy Clarkson 
description: Tommy Clarkson paints - what he calls and teaches those of his tutelage - word pictures. Hes effectively done so for no few years. Some have been from locales such as Southeast Asia, during that war, while over thirty years later the conditions were not dense tropical jungle but rather the bleak and barren wastes of Iraqi sandscapes. (Hot, however, seemed the constant condition in both settings he well recalls!) His vividly written and extensively published articles have also concerned - as well as coming directly from - the ravaged devastation of hurricane, tornado and flood disasters. His sensitive wordsmithing of both natures and human-created horrors may also be seen in his poetry, prose and tropical botanical writings. Hes penned pieces from Europe, Asia, throughout the U.S., on tropical isles such as Hawaii and Kwajalein and over the last ten years - along with his patient and loving wife, Patty - has lived and written from the central Mexico Pacific coast. It is in this latter location that they built Ola Brisa Gardens - designated by TripAdvisors as the Number One Tour destination in Manzanillo. It is also the place - now for more than a decade - from which he has created a popular, weekly column on tropical plants, entitled Planting Roots in Mexico. Additionally, this multi-terraced, tropical plant paradise was the subject of the highly received, award-winning book The Civilized Jungle - Tropical Plants Facts & Fun, Vol I. Volume II is a continuation of this published, expeditionary trek!
zlib_text: A Future We'd Like to See 1.19 - Bad Trip By Twoflower (Copyright 1993) Don't
  get me wrong. Working in a little hut out on the middle of nowhere in some
  jungle world is very placid and scenic, but it can be the pits sometimes. See,
  the problem was that in Zephyr's quest to make the Ultimate Hallucinogenic, he
  had somehow gotten it into his head that leaves from the Canabawana tree would
  make for the most vivid images. However, according to the encyclopedia page we
  ripped from the Yttian public library, Canabawana trees only grew here, on
  this as yet unnamed jungle world. The jungle's very pretty, all multicolors
  and such, but can be the pits, as mentioned. There're these weird snakes that
  try to sell you insurance... alright, before you start laughing and think I've
  been tripping already, I should mention that I've got witnesses as to this
  fact. Don't ask me how this happened. Snakes don't even have voice boxes for
  crying out loud. We've tried smoking leaves from about a dozen differen