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[Unedited] Robin Wall Kimmerer with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Importance of Reciprocity

The local food movement is an antidote to the message that we hear way too often which is that what's good for the environment must be bad for the economy. It just disproves that left and right, doesn't it? I'd like to read this beautiful passage you wrote about reciprocity from Braiding Sweetgrass. We are all bound by a covenant of reciprocity. Plant breath for animal breath, winter and summer, predator and prey, grass and fire, night and day, living and dying. Our elders say that ceremony is the way we can remember to remember. In the dance of the giveaway, remember that the earth is a gift we must pass on just as it came to us

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