Name: The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
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Author: Robin Wall Kimmerer
ISBN: 9781668072240

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Publisher

Scribner

Year

2024

Language

English

Pages

128

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781668072240

Synopsis "The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World"

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world. As Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the serviceberry's relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity, interconnectedness, and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealth--its abundance of sweet, juicy berries--to meet the needs of its natural community. And this distribution insures its own survival. As Kimmerer explains, "Serviceberries show us another model, one based upon reciprocity, where wealth comes from the quality of your relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency." As Elizabeth Gilbert writes, Robin Wall Kimmerer is "a great teacher, and her words are a hymn of love to the world." The Serviceberry is an antidote to the broken relationships and misguided goals of our times, and a reminder that "hoarding won't save us, all flourishing is mutual." Robin Wall Kimmerer is donating her advance payments from this book as a reciprocal gift, back to the land, for land protection, restoration, and justice.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

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She is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Her first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, received the John Burroughs Medal and her writings have appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. In 2022, Monique Gray Smith adapted Braiding Sweetgrass for young adults. Robin conducts numerous tours. In 2015, she addressed the United Nations General Assembly on the topic "Healing our relationship with nature". She holds a Bachelor's degree in Botany from SUNY ESF, a master's and a PhD in Botany from the University of Wisconsin, and is the author of numerous scientific papers. She lives on an old farm in upstate New York and tends both cultivated and wild gardens.

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