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Love so much of this, has really deepened my way of thinking about nature, reciprocity, and the value of plants innately as organisms. There's a playfulness to how Wall Kimmerer talks (I love WallMarsh), and more than that a sincerity. At some points I had to stop myself from finding it cloying and remind myself that sometimes earnestness and true belief can come across as corny.
Highlights include: rewilding and cleaning the pond, Sky Woman story, the study of sweetgrass, working with the students on the cattails, learning the Potowotomi language through post-its. Also love that she is consistently political, talking about colonialisation, the war in Iraq, the attempted genocide of indigenous peoples and suppression of language, the unhealthy "infinite growth" of capitalism and the climate change it has caused, the conflict of the American identity reconciling that it is a country founded by colonising immigrants that remains deeply phobic of modern immigrants.
Using her ex-partner's attempted suicide in a car as an example of discomfort with artificial surroundings is crazyyy work. It's well written but I'm not sure that's ethical.
Parts of the book were overly long or repetitive but I did really enjoy and I'll be thinking of this for a long time.
Love so much of this, has really deepened my way of thinking about nature, reciprocity, and the value of plants innately as organisms. There's a playfulness to how Wall Kimmerer talks (I love WallMarsh), and more than that a sincerity. At some points I had to stop myself from finding it cloying and remind myself that sometimes earnestness and true belief can come across as corny.
Highlights include: rewilding and cleaning the pond, Sky Woman story, the study of sweetgrass, working with the students on the cattails, learning the Potowotomi language through post-its. Also love that she is consistently political, talking about colonialisation, the war in Iraq, the attempted genocide of indigenous peoples and suppression of language, the unhealthy "infinite growth" of capitalism and the climate change it has caused, the conflict of the American identity reconciling that it is a country founded by colonising immigrants that remains deeply phobic of modern immigrants.
Using her ex-partner's attempted suicide in a car as an example of discomfort with artificial surroundings is crazyyy work. It's well written but I'm not sure that's ethical.
Parts of the book were overly long or repetitive but I did really enjoy and I'll be thinking of this for a long time.