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[Unedited] Robin Wall Kimmerer with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Importance of Recognizing Our Gifts

I think it's really important that people recognize the transience perhaps of this exploitative worldview. We as humans with incredible capacities to learn and adapt, we're learning and changing too. I'm not sure that the issue of reciprocity is contingent upon recognizing or even exploring whether the earth loves us back or not. To me they're kind of two separate issues. But the idea of reciprocity, of recognizing that we humans do have gifts that we can give in return for all that has been given to us is a really generative and creative way to be a human in the world.

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