I aspire to eventually help provide cochlear implants to those who cannot afford it and give them the same gift my community has given me.

Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.

First he appeared in the class of inorganic things,
Next he passed therefrom into that of plants,
For years he lived as one of the plants,
Remembering naught of his inorganic state so different,
And when he passed from the vegetive to the animal state
He had no remembrance of his state as a plant.