Restoring land without restoring relationship is an empty exercise. It is relationship that will endure and relationship that will sustain the restor… - Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Restoring land without restoring relationship is an empty exercise. It is relationship that will endure and relationship that will sustain the restored land.
Robin Wall Kimmerer (born September 13, 1953) is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation who is the Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology; and Director, Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF). She is the author of numerous scientific articles, and the books Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (2003), and Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (2013).
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We set ourselves up as arbiters of what is good when often our standards of goodness are driven by narrow interests, by what we want.
Gratitude doesn’t send you out shopping to find satisfaction; it comes as a gift rather than a commodity, subverting the foundation of the whole economy. That's good medicine for land and people alike.
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