Indiana Humanities / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)The Path of Interconnectedness · Reciprocity with the living world
Potawatomi botanist and writer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass, who reads scientific and Indigenous knowledge together as a practice of reciprocity with the living world.
Potawatomi botanist and writer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass, who reads scientific and Indigenous knowledge together as a practice of reciprocity with the living world.
“Serviceberries show us another model, one based upon reciprocity, where wealth comes from the quality of your relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency.”Robin Wall Kimmerer
Talks, day programmes and retreats currently listed in the Paths Are Many calendar.
Short introductions and longer conversations, to hear this teacher in their own words.
A recorded Science Friday book club session in which Kimmerer answers listener questions about Braiding Sweetgrass, Indigenous science and plants as teachers.
Her Bioneers conference keynote braiding Traditional Ecological Knowledge with botanical science around the question of what plants teach.
A recording of Kimmerer speaking at a 5x15 event held at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in May 2024.
The full Swope Lecture at the University of Puget Sound, on restoration and reciprocity in our relationships with the natural world.
Talks, guided meditations and podcast conversations, playing from the platform this teacher publishes them on.
Kimmerer narrates her own essay about the decomposing cedars of the Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon and what their slow return to soil suggests about death and afterlife.
From the podcast Emergence Magazine Podcast
Listen on emergencemagazine.orgA conversation with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee about her book The Serviceberry, the Honorable Harvest, and how gift economies differ from economies built on extraction.
From the podcast Emergence Magazine Podcast
Listen on emergencemagazine.orgKrista Tippett talks with the botanist and Citizen Potawatomi Nation member about plant learning and memory, the grammar of animacy in Potawatomi, and reciprocity as an alternative to sustainability.
From the podcast On Being with Krista Tippett
Listen on onbeing.orgHost Jenni Doering interviews Kimmerer for the public radio programme Living on Earth about the serviceberry, gift economies and practical alternatives to overconsumption.
From the podcast Living on Earth
Listen on loe.orgThe recognition that no self, body or living thing exists in isolation, and that healing, for a person or a planet, begins by remembering our belonging to the whole.
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