“In Native ways of knowing, human people are often referred to as "the younger brothers of Creation". We say that humans have the least experience with how to live and thus the most to learn - we must look to… — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
“We can't meaningfully proceed with healing, with restoration, without "re-story-ation".” — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
“In a culture of gratitude, everyone knows that gifts will follow the circle of reciprocity and flow back to you again.” — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
“The prosperity of the community grows from the flow of relationships, not the accumulation of goods. When the natural world is understood as a… — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
“When we speak of these not as things or natural resources or commodities, but as gifts, our whole relationship to the natural world changes.” — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
“I think it is this that it is this that draws me to the pond on a night in April, bearing witness to puhpowee.… — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
“Infrared satellite imagery, optical telescopes, and the Hubbell space telescope bring vastness within our visual sphere. Electron microscopes let us wander the remote universe… — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
“What is it that brings me here to stand like a rock in this river of sound?” — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
It's a sign of respect and connection to learn the name of someone else, a sign of disrespect to ignore it. And yet, the… — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
“If we allow the practice of restoration to become the exclusive domain of science, we will have lost its greatest promise, which is nothing… — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
“Just as you can pick out the voice of a loved one in the tumult of a noisy room, or spot your child's smile… — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
What if you were a teacher but had no voice to speak your knowledge? What if you had no language at all and yet… — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
“Between takeoff and landing, we are each in suspended animation, a pause between chapters of our lives. When we stare out the window into… — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
“How, in our modern world, can we find our way to understand the earth as a gift again, to make our relations with the… — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
“In Native ways of knowing, human people are often referred to as "the younger brothers of Creation". We say that humans have the least… — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
“Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting… — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
