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[Unedited] Robin Wall Kimmerer with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Gathering Moss

There is an ancient conversation going on between mosses and rocks poetry to be sure about light and shadow. And it's a conversation that takes place at a pace that we humans, especially we contemporary humans who are rushing about, can't even grasp the pace of that conversation. So thinking about plants as persons forces us to shed our idea of the only pace that we live on: the human pace. It's very exciting to think about these ways of being which happen on completely different scales and so exciting to think what we might learn from them.

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