Botanist of Reciprocity
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Your quest companion appears in the header, offers one of their ideas on your home page each day, and cheers you on in lessons. You can change companions at any time, and your progress stays the same.
A botanist and a citizen of the Potawatomi Nation who brings Indigenous knowledge and plant science together, and writes about land and its gifts as calling for gratitude and giving back.
Key work: Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)
“To name the world as gift is to feel one’s membership in the web of reciprocity.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
Treat what you receive as a gift that asks something of you.
Science and Indigenous knowledge can teach each other.
Take only what you need, and give something back.
Read more: Wikipedia
On the climb
The Serviceberry
Quest with Robin Wall Kimmerer above to start the climb and open these lessons.