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Robin Wall Kimmerer on Society

born 1953 United States

← All quotes by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Being a good mother means teaching your children to care for the world.

Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)

People can’t understand the world as a gift unless someone shows them how it’s a gift.

Interview with The Guardian (2020)

We spill over into the world and the world spills over into us. The earth, that first among good mothers, gives us the gift that we cannot provide ourselves.

Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)

Why is the world so beautiful? is a question that we all ought to be embracing.

On Being podcast (2022)

The trees act not as individuals, but somehow as a collective. Exactly how they do this, we don’t yet know. But what we see is the power of unity. What happens to one happens to us all. We can starve together or feast together.

Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)

Attribution

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