« The world has a way of guiding your steps. »

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

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« The land knows you, even when you are lost. »

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

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« The story of our relationship to the earth is written more truthfully on the land than on the page. It lasts there. The land remembers what we said and what we did. »

― Robin Wall Kimmerer

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« 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

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« The most important thing each of us can know is our unique gift and how to use it in the world. Individuality is cherished and nurtured, because, in order for the whole to flourish, each of us has to be strong in who we are and carry our gifts with conviction, so they can be shared with others. »

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

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« 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

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« Through reciprocity the gift is replenished. All of our flourishing is mutual. »

― Robin Wall Kimmerer

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« Reciprocity is a matter of keeping the gift in motion through self-perpetuating cycles of giving and receiving. »

― Robin Wall Kimmerer

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« 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

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« The trees act not as individuals, but somehow as a collective. Exactly how they do this, we don’t yet know. But what we see is the power of unity. What happens to one happens to us all. We can starve together or feast together. »

― Robin Wall Kimmerer

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« 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. If an animal gives its life to feed me, I am in turn bound to support its life. If I receive a stream's gift of pure water, then I am responsible for returning a gift in kind. An … »

― Robin Wall Kimmerer

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