Emergence Magazine Podcast Practical Reverence – A Conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer
Nov 25, 2025
Join Potawatomi botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer as she dives into her new book, The Serviceberry. She introduces the concept of the Honorable Harvest, emphasizing principles like restraint and gratitude. Robin discusses the sacred connections between gifts and nature, critiquing the commodification of resources like water. Through storytelling, she highlights how community and mutual flourishing can foster ecological healing. Kimmerer argues for local gift economies, deepening our human and environmental relationships, all through a lens of practical reverence.
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Serviceberry As Seasonal Gift
- The serviceberry is a modest shrub that bursts into early blooms and later heavy clusters of fruit, drawing birds and people alike.
- Robin Wall Kimmerer frames the berry as a seasonal gift that reveals relationships across the ecosystem.
Enoughness As Radical Resistance
- 'Enoughness' means recognizing you already have what you need and feeling content rather than taking more.
- Embracing enoughness frees surplus to be shared and combats hyper-consumption and ecological harm.
Practice The Honorable Harvest
- Follow the Honorable Harvest: never take the first or the last, ask permission, take only what you need, and give thanks.
- Reciprocate by returning spiritual or material gifts to support the plant's future flourishing.
