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[Unedited] Robin Wall Kimmerer with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Importance of Animality

As a child I couldn't help but wonder why the world was so full of different beings and what their lives were like. What I understood from the plants at a very early age is their animacy, that they are persons,. Not only respected persons but really they were my teachers. And this notion of the personhood not only of plants but the personhood of all beings is a key part of the worldview that I hope we as humans can reclaim.

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