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Robin Wall Kimmerer — The Intelligence of Plants

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Do the Earth Love You Back?

In your book, braiding sweet grass, there's this line, it came to me while picking beans, the secret of happiness. And you talk about gardening, which is actually something that many people do, and i think more people are doing. So that's a very concrete way of illustrating this. In talking with my environment students, they wholeheartedly agree that they love the earth, but when i ask them the question of, does the earth love you back, there's a great deal of hesitation and reluctance in eyes cast down. That would mean that the earth had agency. And tat that i was not an anonymous little m blip on the landscape for that i was known by

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