What Plants Can Teach Us - A Talk with Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmerer, award-winning author of Braiding Sweetgrass, blends science’s polished art of seeing with indigenous wisdom. An expert bryologist and inspiration for Elizabeth Gilbert’s Signature of All Things, she shares how mosses are ancient storytellers from whom we can learn much about cooperation and sharing limited resources. After Dr. Kimmerer’s lecture, she speaks in conversation with Elizabeth Gilbert. Dr. Kimmerer is also a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and founding Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.
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Gorgeous. Bless you for teaching us.
Her work truly is the poetry of biology
plants are "Subjects not objects." LOVE THIS... AND HER.
The simple profundity and beauty of life is beyond comprehension
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💖 yes, unbelievably stunnning 🙏
OMG, this makes me cry, and laugh, to wonder why Humans got such status as to have the natural world GIVE SO MUCH to us, and do we deserve it? It looks like most of us have so much to learn about basic, the very basics of respect for the earth, love and giving back. "Reciprocity" . We all have so much to give back, simple as songs? spreading seeds, giving thanks and prayer for their prosperity. Our beautiful teachers.... a marvel, unspeakable beauty..... we can all begin now, this very minute. Thank you, Robin, thank you Mother Earth. I've reading "Braiding Sweetgrass", such a gift to bring us here to this awareness, again, and again... thank you for reminding us! Love and peace
I do not know, how I got here. But I watched the lecture, and I just want to say thank you for your interest. Because it makes me interested too:),
What a wonderful and aligned to my belief system/ work/ mission presentation!! just beautiful!! Thank you so much!!
This is a beautiful talk. Even though I'm now a senior citizen, I still want to learn from Robin. I've read Braiding Sweetgrass and I'm changed, altered somehow!
I have also been reading Braiding Sweetgrass and after watching this video, I have to write a lesson plan for elementary students on Listening to Plants. I am super excited- except for the part where I have to connect to the grade 3 plants curriculum for Ontario. I never minded it as much before as I do now... so limited, so anthropocentric, so surface. It's no wonder many Indigenous children are still not feeling that our schools are meeting their needs, their spirits where they are at. We have no idea. I have been awakened, thank you. I work in outdoor education and can affect change from here as best as I know how... I still have much to learn, but I will take to the forest to do so... and watch more Robin. KK
This was a wonderful talk, and what a great opener by Elizabeth. I wish I had been at this in person now!!
This is wonderful....just the right thing to hear....
Robin W. Kimmerer explains perfectly why Western (or industrial) worldview is so destructive to life. I am currently reading her book named Braiding Sweetgrass. For me, Kimmerer carries forward the line of nature writers like Goethe, Humboldt, Thoreau and Rachel Carson who could combine science with philosophy and poetry.
I love listening to Robin Wall Kimmerer ! anyone ever translated her in french ? or other languages ?
Thanks for posting!
Thanks 🙏 ☀️👏🙏🙏
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Was just thinking about Oliver sacks. I'm sure he would have liked this.
Sphagnum was used through WW I as a battlefield wound treatment. Reference "Clan of the Cave Bear" & you will find that moss can be used to carry an ember & keep it hot for several hours as you move to a new site. This is very good. It adds to our sum total of knowledge.
Miiwetch for recording this and sharing it.
"Do your work as a whole person "
Sadhguru is running a great campaign on saving soil at the moment!