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[Unedited] Robin Wall Kimmerer with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Song of the Plants

The song of the plants is representing them and recognizing that the plants are persons. They're non-human persons but they're very special persons with their own way of knowing their own stories, their own songs. And we reduce them tremendously if we just think about them as physical elements of the ecosystem. It's such a mechanical, kind of wooden representation of what a plant really is. Even in that language what a plant Really Is.

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