As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity…
Articles
Returning the Gift
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
We are showered every day with the gifts of the Earth, gifts we have neither…
Interviews
The Intelligence in All Kinds of Life
by Krista Tippett, On Being
(On Being, February, 2016) “Why is the world so beautiful?” This is a question Robin…
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.
