Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

The world has a way of guiding your steps. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

The land knows you, even when you are lost. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

For me, writing is an act of reciprocity with the world; it is what I can give back in return for everything that has been given to me. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

Respect one another, support one another, bring your gift to the world and receive the gifts of others, and there will be enough for all. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

Reciprocity is a matter of keeping the gift in motion through self-perpetuating cycles of giving and receiving. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

Gifts from the earth or from each other establish a particular relationship, an obligation of sorts to give, to receive, and to reciprocate. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

Cultures of gratitude must also be cultures of reciprocity. Each person, human or no, is bound to every other in a reciprocal relationship. Just as all beings have a duty to me, I have a duty to them....