Quotes by : Robin Wall Kimmerer

caring is not abstract. The circle of ecological compassion we feel is enlarged by direct experience....

The very earth that sustains us is being destroyed to fuel injustice. An economy that grants personhood....

Instead I just stand there, tears running down my cheeks in nameless emotion that tastes of joy and of....

Ruined land was accepted as the collateral damage of progress.

A bay is a noun only if water is dead. When bay is a noun, it is defined by humans, trapped between its....

The creek that was once a fishery for Atlantic salmon, a swimming hole for kids, and a focal point of....

Something is broken when the food comes on a Styrofoam tray wrapped in slippery plastic, a carcass of....

Had the new people learned what Original Man was taught at a council of animals—never damage Creation,....

Among our Potawatomi people, women are the Keepers of Water. We carry the sacred water to ceremonies....

To love a place is not enough. We must find ways to heal it.