Starting tomorrow!
pickAn extraordinary work, to balance the evidence of so many depredations against nature, against indigenous people, with all the many lessons the natural world has to offer, all the ways indigenous knowledge can help to heal the world.
Kimmerer‘s writing dips into memoir in sharing her own experiences, as a scientist, as a teacher, as a mother, she shares traditional indigenous stories, and the stories of her people and other indigenous 1/?
“Language is our gift and our responsibility. I‘ve come to think of writing as an act of reciprocity with the living land. Words to remember old stories, words to tell new ones, stories that bring science and spirit back together...“
I thought
they would have no answer, but I was humbled by their creativity. The
gifts they might return to cattails are as diverse as those the cattails
gave them. This is our work, to discover what we can give. Isn‘t this the
purpose of education, to learn the nature of your own gifts and how to
use them for good in the world? 💡🎁
In some Native languages the term for plants translates to “those who take care of us.” 🌱❤️
“Wild leeks and wild ideas are in jeopardy. We have to transplant them both and nurture their return to the lands of their birth. We have to carry them across the wall, restoring the Honorable Harvest, bringing back the medicine.“
“...the source of the food is mostly evident, although Cheetos and Ding Dongs remain an ecological mystery. 😏🤷🏼♂️
so-so“There‘s a Bedouin saying, “that wherever you place your rug is home.” Coffee shops are my rugs.”
pickAs 3 tweens work to dam up a trickle of stream into a water pond, they begin to see wildlife and wild plants return to the area 🦆 🐿️ 🦢
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