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Robin Wall Kimmerer — The Intelligence of Plants

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Transformation of Love to Grief

I want to read something im from, i'm sure this is from braiding sweet grass. Im yo wrote, we are all bound by a covenant of reciprocity. Plant breath for animal breath, winter and summer, predator and prey, grass and fire, night and day, living and dying. Our elders say that ceremony is the way we can remember to remember in the dance of the giveaway. The earth is a gift we must pass on just as it came to us. When we forget the dances we'll need, will be mourning for the passing of polar bears, the silence of cranes, for the death of rivers and the memory of snow.

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