Articles

The Serviceberry

by Robin Wall Kimmerer
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

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.