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Robin Wall Kimmerer on Science

born 1953 United States

← All quotes by Robin Wall Kimmerer

5 quotes

Doing science with awe and humility is a powerful act of reciprocity with the more-than-human world.

Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)

To name and describe you must first see, and science polishes the gift of seeing.

Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)

Science can be a way of forming intimacy and respect with other species that is rivaled only by the observations of traditional knowledge holders. It can be a path to kinship.

Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)

Science and traditional knowledge may ask different questions and speak different languages, but they may converge when both truly listen to the plants.

Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)

... it really gets to this idea — how science asks us to learn about organisms, traditional knowledge asks us to learn from them.

Interview on the On Being podcast (2022)

Attribution

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