As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity…
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Returning the Gift
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
We are showered every day with the gifts of the Earth, gifts we have neither…
Robin Wall Kimmerer
About the author
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. Kimmerer lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.
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