Robin Wall Kimmerer

“What is it that brings me here to stand like a rock in this river of sound?”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

“We can't meaningfully proceed with healing, with restoration, without "re-story-ation".”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

“How, in our modern world, can we find our way to understand the earth as a gift again, to make our relations…

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

“In a culture of gratitude, everyone knows that gifts will follow the circle of reciprocity and flow back to you again.”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

“When we speak of these not as things or natural resources or commodities, but as gifts, our whole relationship to the natural…

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

“Always value people over things" "Without farmers you'd be naked, hungry, and sober”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

“Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of…

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

“If we allow the practice of restoration to become the exclusive domain of science, we will have lost its greatest promise, which…

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

“Just as you can pick out the voice of a loved one in the tumult of a noisy room, or spot your…

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

“In Native ways of knowing, human people are often referred to as "the younger brothers of Creation". We say that humans have…

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

What if you were a teacher but had no voice to speak your knowledge? What if you had no language at all…

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

“The prosperity of the community grows from the flow of relationships, not the accumulation of goods. When the natural world is understood…

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

It's a sign of respect and connection to learn the name of someone else, a sign of disrespect to ignore it. And…

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

“I think it is this that it is this that draws me to the pond on a night in April, bearing witness…

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

“Infrared satellite imagery, optical telescopes, and the Hubbell space telescope bring vastness within our visual sphere. Electron microscopes let us wander the…

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

“Between takeoff and landing, we are each in suspended animation, a pause between chapters of our lives. When we stare out the…

— Robin Wall Kimmerer