Saturday, September 24, 2011

Long Xingchao

"It's useless to fear danger, because it's always around. What's most important is doing what you live for. If you think about danger, you can't do anything. The most dangerous places are where I most want to go. I want to see everything I haven't and understand it."

"There is a global division of labor... One of China's roles is to be the doctor to keep the world healthy with its traditional medicine."

- Long Xingchao is a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine who claims to have obtained the world's largest collection of traditional Chinese medicinal herbs. He personally gathered around 6,000 samples, often facing venomous snakes and landslides. (Read the ChinaDaily article)