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Botanist and Potawatomi citizen Robin Wall Kimmerer on the intelligence of plants, the gift economy of nature, and what indigenous knowledge systems reveal about our relationship to the living world.
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Highlights
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Gratitude is an ecological practice, not just a psychological one — it changes how you relate to the living world
Kimmerer argues that gratitude toward plants, water, and land is not metaphorical but functional: it creates a reciprocal relationship that encourages conservation and stewardship rather than extraction.•
The gift economy of nature challenges the market economy of extraction
Kimmerer contrasts two economic models: the market economy (nature as resource to extract) and the gift economy (nature as gift to reciprocate). Indigenous cultures operate in the gift economy; industrial cultures operate in the market economy.Was this useful?