Old-growth cultures, like , have not been exterminated. The land holds their memory and the possibility of… — Robin Wall Kimmerer
Old-growth cultures, like , have not been exterminated. The land holds their memory and the possibility of regeneration. They are not only a matter of ethnicity or history, but of relationships born out of reciprocity between land and people.
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