"Transformation is not accomplished by tentative wading at the edge." — Robin Wall Kimmerer — — — #RobinWallKimmerer #quote #quotes #transformation #tentative #audacious #definitive #definite #risks #committed #daring

Was staying at a friend’s house while they were gone a few weeks ago, and realized how some of the Honorable Harvest (ethical foraging) guidelines aren’t weird or surprising… they’re the same guidelines I use when deciding what to eat when a friend has said “Take whatever you want”:

-Never take the first, never take the last
-Take only what you need
-Never take more than half, leave some for others
-Use it respectfully

#RobinWallKimmerer #Foraging #BraidingSweetgrass

In meinem Garten tut #RobinWallKimmerer ihr Werk. Ihre Bücher werden lebendig. Ich pflanzte wegen ihr #Süßgras und dazwischen siedelt sich nun - natürlich - #Moos an.

Alive with Rock and Tree https://wonderground.press/gardens/alive-with-rock-and-tree/ #robinwallkimmerer #georginareid #GarySnyder #JennyOdell #philosophy #DavidOrr #Gardens #animism #Essays #essay

New post on my Patreon celebrating three women who have got me through this winter. Over the last few months I've developed intense parasocial relationships with all of them, and I hope they don't think that's weird. I'm sharing the goodness here so you can fall in love with them too.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/77814365

#JessicaRihal #yoga #AlieWard #Ologies #RobinWallKimmerer #podcasts #books #reading

Together we stand
Challenging destruction, braiding
A new way of life

#braiddingsweetgrass #robinwallkimmerer #cultureofdestruction #haiku #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/01/30/magazine/robin-wall-kimmerer-interview.html

Responses so far to my request for works that aren't stuck in fear, gloom and doom narratives related to #sustainability #climate #environment

Movements
#TakeTheJump
#SolarPunk
#permaculture
#AIArt

Non-Fiction
#SusanneMoser
#GlennAlbrecht
#ElinKelsey
#DonellaMeadows
#AlastairMcIntosh
@annaleen
#SuzanneSimard
#RobinWallKimmerer
#MerlinSheldrake

Fiction and #clifi
@octaviacade
#KimStanleyRobinson
#ErnestCallenbach
#OctaviaButler
#RichardPowers
#CharlotteMcConaghy

Re-upping this short #book thread to include it in @bookstodon and to add that the whole chapter on Witch Hazel I read last night was incredibly moving.

#RobinWallKimmerer #botany #naturalscience #nature #science #nonfiction #book #indigenous wisdom

https://mstdn.social/@progressiveartist/109552259929009262

Why do sugar maple #trees get covered in moss while nearby older red oaks don't so much? Maybe the answer is in #GatheringMoss by #RobinWallKimmerer. I'll have to read again.
#Mosstodon
#forests
#trees

@theneurotrust for me, it was #HoodFeminism by #MikkiKendal and #BetweenTheWorldAndMe by #TaNahesiCoates. Now branching out to #EcoJustice with #ToBeAWaterProtector by #WinonaLaDuke and #BraidingSweetgrass by #RobinWallKimmerer

@bookstodon

Related to this is a quote from #BraidingSweetgrass by #RobinWallKimmerer: "The problem with these new people is that they don't have both feet on the shore. One is still on the boat. They don't seem to know whether they're staying or not."

These two quotes are on my mind for myself in this coming year. While I am forced to live within a capitalist society, I want to learn to live WITH the land on which I reside. Robin asks" What happens when we truly become native to a place, when we finally make a home? Where are the stories that lead the way? If time does in fact eddy back on itself, maybe the journey of the First Man [Nanabozho] will provide footsteps to guide the journey of the Second."

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Began reading this most amazing book a few nights ago. I'm into the third section of the first chapter, and finding it beautifully written, insightful and full of #Indigenous wisdom with regard to our relationships and connectedness to one another and the earth. Highly recommend. #braidingsweetgrass #RobinWallKimmerer #botany #naturalscience #nature #science #nonfiction #book

@katinalynn Thank you for the link! 😊 I didn't know this podcast yet, being a fan of her books. My love for #mosses grew deeper with her book "Gathering #Moss" and this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3FSpMMzUNI #mosstodon #RobinWallKimmerer

In my inveterate “can’t even stick to one book in a single day,” today I’ve been going back & forth between #RobinWallKimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass (audiobook read excellently by the author) and Hope Mirrlees’ Lud-In-The-Mist (ebook). #AmReading

A conversation between #Bjork and #RobinWallKimmerer should be very inspiring to listen to! https://www.artforum.com/video/the-artist-and-scientist-discuss-the-consequences-of-living-apart-from-nature-89502

I am enjoying the audiobook version of #WeavingSweetgrass by #RobinWallKimmerer as I rest after #cataract surgery. I was able to borrow the audiobook due to generous gifts from the #Libby app and the Houston Public #Library. I highly recommend all of the above.

I just read an essay about moss that was also utterly damning of the capitalist class.

The Owner, in Gathering Moss by #RobinWallKimmerer

The essays in this book are amazing.

#AmReading

A clump of moss the size of a muffin might contain

- 150,000 protozoa
- 132,000 tardigrades
- 3,000 springtails
- 800 rotifers
- 500 nematodes
- 400 mites
- 200 fly larvae

That is so many critters!

#AmReading Gathering Moss by #RobinWallKimmerer

This afternoon’s hot beverage is eggnog hot cocoa.

Next up on the list is a couple errands. I’m picking up a few groceries the online delivery didn’t have, then dropping by the library. It’s my turn to read Gathering Moss and I’m so excited. I started it several months ago and had to return it before I was done. It is so beautiful and I can’t wait to sit down and finish it.

#AmReading #RobinWallKimmerer