Robin Kimmerer - Mishkos Kenomagwen: The Teachings of Grass | Bioneers

Indigenous peoples worldwide honor plants, not only as our sustainers, but as our oldest teachers who share teachings of generosity, creativity, sustainability and joy. By their living examples, plants spur our imaginations of how we might live. By braiding indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) with modern tools of botanical science, Robin Kimmerer, professor of Environmental Science and Forestry, of Potawatomi ancestry, explores the question: “If plants are our teachers, what are their lessons, and how might we become better students”?
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  • @perplexedprimate
    @perplexedprimate5 жыл бұрын

    Do not miss her 2013 book on this theme - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants - a beautifully written, thoughtful book that is incredibly inspirational - thank you, thank you, thank you Robin!

  • @eL-li3hp

    @eL-li3hp

    2 жыл бұрын

    I was just gifted her book. It is just lovely.

  • @brittkelly6326

    @brittkelly6326

    2 жыл бұрын

    Loved this book

  • @itsoruss

    @itsoruss

    Жыл бұрын

    The best read of 2022 IMHO. Loved it.

  • @beitheleaf8221
    @beitheleaf8221 Жыл бұрын

    I was meant to hear this today. I have this amazing woman to thank for sparking a curiosity to learn about the natural world and to pursue a path of practicing awareness and respect. It makes me glad to see so many others moved by this too. 💙

  • @musicalkid14852
    @musicalkid148525 жыл бұрын

    I'm so incredibly proud that I can call myself a student of hers. I learned so much from her as a student at ESF.

  • @FreemanPresson

    @FreemanPresson

    3 жыл бұрын

    That book is outstanding. I am listening to the audiobook, read by the author. It's going slowly because there is so much to digest.

  • @JM-lo9xk

    @JM-lo9xk

    7 ай бұрын

    I could listen to her all day and night! You are very lucky ❤

  • @MsDee221
    @MsDee2214 ай бұрын

    Chills. She is such a beautiful poet and incredibly smart individual. I could listen to her all day. Robin for President.

  • @bioneers
    @bioneers9 жыл бұрын

    "In an economy which urges us to always want more, to practice #gratitude is truly a radical act." Robin Kimmerer on the honorable harvest: kzread.info/dash/bejne/lamhp7OcgrC_Y8Y.html

  • @not2tees
    @not2tees4 жыл бұрын

    It is not the land that is broken but our relationship to the land. Well, I for one am going to memorize the rules of the Honourable Harvest.

  • @jandunn169
    @jandunn1692 жыл бұрын

    I love your books and the sensitivity and indigenous wisdom you bring to your scientific knowledge. This wholeness is what our world needs so badly and a new paradigm for sustaining Mother Earth.....

  • @nathanrichardson8402
    @nathanrichardson84025 жыл бұрын

    These teachings are bringing tears to my eyes.... I'm crying as I listen to this beauty and I can't stop...

  • @mairincampbell4506
    @mairincampbell45065 жыл бұрын

    Gratitude immense for Robin Wall Kimmerer! My hero.

  • @nathanrichardson8402
    @nathanrichardson84025 жыл бұрын

    This made me smile and made me cry.. it was so profound, so moving!! Thank you from the deepest recesses of my heart for sharing your wisdom

  • @kcouture77
    @kcouture772 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, Robin Wall Kimmerer. Your beautiful heart speaks through your words truth that resonates so deeply.

  • @hummingbirdforestgardens
    @hummingbirdforestgardens10 ай бұрын

    Such an excellent speaker and teacher. Your books have been read and read again here. Thank you.

  • @nedelkaprescod1426
    @nedelkaprescod1426 Жыл бұрын

    Yes, and yes again and again. Thank you.

  • @georgeannadecarlo8053
    @georgeannadecarlo80537 жыл бұрын

    You truly have the gift of an engaging speaker who speaks from and to the heart.

  • @DavidLindes
    @DavidLindes2 жыл бұрын

    17:52 - "What would the world look like if a developer poised to convert a meadow into a shopping mall had to ask the permission first of the goldenrod and the meadowlarks, and had to abide by the answer?" - 💗🌷🌾🐦

  • @nickrogers7071
    @nickrogers70715 жыл бұрын

    Please play this at my funeral

  • @ShineYourLight108
    @ShineYourLight1084 жыл бұрын

    So so beautiful. Thank you for sharing your wisdom! Miigwetch!

  • @germ132barn223
    @germ132barn2238 жыл бұрын

    How profoundly beautiful and true!

  • @lasencantadas8702
    @lasencantadas87024 жыл бұрын

    I love listening to Robin Wall Kimmerer ! anyone ever translated her in french ? or other languages ?

  • @n.d8001
    @n.d80013 жыл бұрын

    Very eloquent lady.

  • @csikosandor
    @csikosandor4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Robin!

  • @shansational1803
    @shansational18032 жыл бұрын

    Did she visit USU? I think I've listened to her if she did. Inspired me to want to visit Kansas's prarie, too. (Or, someone indigenous did.)

  • @Danichdelight
    @Danichdelight3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for this video.. My first meting with this wise woman :-) ..

  • @SXCLADE
    @SXCLADE2 жыл бұрын

    🔥♥️🔥💛🔥💚🔥

  • @NativeHoney608
    @NativeHoney6083 жыл бұрын

    19:23 I felt that

  • @kammietakahashi8467
    @kammietakahashi8467 Жыл бұрын

    ☺️

  • @lasencantadas8702
    @lasencantadas8702 Жыл бұрын

    I remember in one of her video she said something like the trees or nature would or could turn their backs from us - something like that - I would like to listen to that speech again - do you know which one it is ?

  • @bioneers

    @bioneers

    Жыл бұрын

    Not sure, I think this is the only keynote talk we have with Robin...

  • @lasencantadas8702

    @lasencantadas8702

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bioneers Actually it was video with Robin Wall Kimmerer not specially on your chain, and there are many of them on youtube... Thanks anyway for your answer

  • @laurapfeifer749
    @laurapfeifer749 Жыл бұрын

    How could they keep Martha in a cage and not able to live freely as a natural part of this Earth, and die happy. To see her locked up in a box, after they killed all of her flocks, then to keep her alone in a box. I get so grossed out by how we treat living things. How did we get so disrespectful, that her last days of her life were in a little prison. I guess people think its only cruel if it happens to them.

  • @itzakpoelzig330

    @itzakpoelzig330

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, they should at the very least have given her companions of a similar species. Pigeons are intensely social creatures, she must have been miserable in isolation.

  • @glenliesegang233
    @glenliesegang233 Жыл бұрын

    Before 1988, humanity lived off the interest of Mother Nature's abundance. M Now we are destroying the principal.

  • @glenliesegang233
    @glenliesegang233 Жыл бұрын

    If each human over age 12 planted 10 trees a year, drove less, fished less, used less electricity, and ate more plants than meat, I fully believe the Earth' climate would stabilize.

  • @pattimichellesheaffer103
    @pattimichellesheaffer1034 жыл бұрын

    Retired USAF Research Scientist here. People do crave upbeat speakers! Problem is that there are ~8 billion humans only *because* of fossil fuels and their use in "flogging the land" (which crops are grown upon). Montgomery [2013] points out nearly *every* civilization has left it's footprint in "dead/salinated/eroded" land which can no longer feed humans. Meadows [1973, 2004, 2018] points out that the remaining (and decreasing) agricultural land can likely only support a few billion humans; fewer if in the Western lifestyle. A big die-off (euphemistically called a "evolutionary bottleneck") is fast approaching as we destroy the Holocene - itself having been required for civilizations to exist in the first place. So, ya, she says good things which are encouraging - but simple, well understood physics [Meadows 2018] requires billions of deaths. How can she (or *anyone* ) work such a statement of *known* *fact* into their orations while remaining upbeat? I have yet to see anyone speak the facts and remain upbeat. In fact, I don't know how I remain sane and yet behold the physical facts every day. Perhaps one gets used to seeing the facts after some time - a lesson in acceptance.

  • @sawtoothiandi

    @sawtoothiandi

    4 жыл бұрын

    i guess evolutionary bottleneck or not, every born thing dies. acceptance of death is hard-won but worth seeking. perhaps for those that believe that the body is merely a temporary vehicle this is easier to handle?

  • @vishwamheckert4208

    @vishwamheckert4208

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm inspired by the research that shows small scale organic gardening is much more productive than industrial scale methods. Who knows what is possible? Embracing uncertainty might be part of our walk into the future.

  • @HamOnCan
    @HamOnCan Жыл бұрын

    it would have us turn hospitals into hospitality garden and fitness scenters top it by turning schools into th old fashioned community centers/churches of the black people. sharing for th common good

  • @sabrinacooklin9385
    @sabrinacooklin9385 Жыл бұрын

    This video is moving, but even the "clean" sources of energy are not truly sustainable. Geo-engineering has made sunlight sparse in many areas, as well as the fact that the minerals needed to create solar panels are rarer than many precious stones. Plus, they eventually break beyond repair and need to be replaced. The wind doesn't always blow, and windmills still require vast natural resources to make. There is no "sustainable" form of energy. The only way to reverse environmental damage would be to revert to nomadic times without running water, electricity, or even civilization as we know it.

  • @AngelaSealana

    @AngelaSealana

    9 ай бұрын

    It's up to us to find a third way.

  • @xcolonel
    @xcolonel3 жыл бұрын

    This lady teaches about overconsumption and greed but she herself is overweight. Why did I just read her book

  • @xcolonel

    @xcolonel

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@SM-jw5si oh but I did

  • @xcolonel

    @xcolonel

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@SM-jw5si im guessing you didn't

  • @valerymontoya7771

    @valerymontoya7771

    3 жыл бұрын

    there’s other reasons other than overconsumption for being overweight. Ever heard of hypothyroidism or genetics? Don’t judge a book by it’s cover.

  • @redj1101

    @redj1101

    3 жыл бұрын

    So, to you, a few extra pounds on *one woman* justify the exploitation of the natural world? Make it make sense

  • @xcolonel

    @xcolonel

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@redj1101 hardly a few. I'm not justifying anything. I don't think we should exploit the natural world. I think she should practice what she writes if she's trying to get others to do the same

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