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To name the world as gift is to feel your membership in the web of reciprocity.
Robin Wall Kimmerer • The Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and Abundance
Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon
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he’s as generous and eager as weeds.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
From the very beginning of the world, the other species were a lifeboat for the people. Now, we must be theirs. But the stories that might guide us,
Robin Wall Kimmerer • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
He introduces himself to the seller, explains his need, just as he would in a meadow, asking permission of the sweetgrass. He cannot pay for it, not because he doesn’t have the money, but because it cannot be bought or sold and still retain its essence for ceremony.
Robin Wall Kimmerer • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Omaere Foundation, which she leads,
David George Haskell • The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
Through unity, survival. All flourishing is mutual.
Robin Wall Kimmerer • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
as a traveler between scientific and traditional ways of knowing,
Robin Wall Kimmerer • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
They weave a web of reciprocity,