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Robin Wall Kimmerer on Anniversary

born 1953 United States

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The ultimate reciprocity, loving and being loved in return.

Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)

The presence of our reciprocal love is hard to say good-bye to.

Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)

This is really why I made my daughters learn to garden—so they would always have a mother to love them, long after I am gone.

Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)

If there is meaning in the past and in the imagined future, it is captured in the moment. When you have all the time in the world, you can spend it, not on going somewhere, but on being where you are.

Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)

Time is not a river running inexorably to the sea, but the sea itself—its tides that appear and disappear, the fog that rises to become rain in a different river. All things that were will come again.

Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)

How do we show our children our love? Each in our own way by a shower of gifts and a heavy rain of lessons.

Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)

I think about grief as a measure of our love, that grief compels us to do something, to love more.

Interview with The Guardian (2020)

In many indigenous ways of knowing, time is not a river, but a lake in which the past, the present, and the future exist. Creation, then, is an ongoing process and the story is not history alone—it is also prophecy.

Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)

If the Sun is the source of flow in the economy of nature, what is the "Sun" of a human gift economy, the source that constantly replenishes the flow of gifts? Maybe it is love.

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (2024)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robin Wall Kimmerer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.