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Robin Wall Kimmerer — The Intelligence of Plants

On Being with Krista Tippett

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What Is the World So Beautiful?

As a young phd. Botanist, i was invited to a gathering of traditional plant knowledge holders. And it was such an amazing experience, four days of listening to people whose knowledge of the plant world was so much deeper and tis weor these elders,. Their education was on the land and with the plants and through the oral tradition. But i just sat there and soaked in this wonderful conversation which inter wove mythic knowledge and scientific knowledge into this beautiful cultural natural history. For me, it was absolutely a watershed moment, because it made me remember those things that starting to walk the science path had made me forget, or attempted to make me forget. I wanted to do everything

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