Knowing that you love the earth changes you, activates you to defend and protect and celebrate. But when you feel that the earth loves you in return, that feeling transforms the relationship from a one-way street into a sacred bond.Robin Wall Kimmerer
The land knows you, even when you are lost.Robin Wall Kimmerer
In some Native languages the term for plants translates to 'those who take care of us'.Robin Wall Kimmerer
When times are easy and there's plenty to go around, individual species can go it alone. But when conditions are harsh and life is tenuous, it takes a team sworn to reciprocity to keep life going forward.Robin Wall Kimmerer
The moral covenant of reciprocity calls us to honor our responsibilities for all we have been given, for all that we have taken. It's our turn now, long overdue.Robin Wall Kimmerer
In a world of gifts, everything we need is here, if we take care of it. The care we give to the world we’re loaned is the rent we pay for the privilege of life.Robin Wall Kimmerer
Plants know how to make food and medicine from light and water, and then they give it away.Robin Wall Kimmerer
We are all bound by a covenant of reciprocity: plant breath for animal breath, winter and summer, predator and prey, grass and fire, night and day, living and dying.Robin Wall Kimmerer
Living in a world that is valued not for its sacredness but for its monetary exchange is like living in a tetherball tournament. You always have to win to survive.Robin Wall Kimmerer
Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be.Robin Wall Kimmerer