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Robin Wall Kimmerer on Wedding

born 1953 United States

← All quotes by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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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)

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)

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)

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