Robin Wall Kimmerer

Quotes

1. To carry a gift is also to carry a responsibility.

   p. 211

2. 

   A harvest is made honorable when it sustains the giver as well as the taker.

   p. 194

3. 

   We are told to take only that which is given.

   p. 177

4. 

   The truth of our relationship with the soil is written more clearly on the land than in any book.

   p. 138

5. 

   I don't have much patience with food proselytizers who refuse all but organic, free-range, fair-trade gerbil milk. We each do what we can.

   p. 196

6. 

   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.

   p. 134

7. 

   To be indigenous is to protect life on earth.

   p. 209

8. 

   If you ask permission, you have to listen to the answer.

   p. 176

9. 

   The need to resolve the inescapable tension between honoring life around us and taking it in order to live is part of being human.

   p. 177

10. 

    To be heard, you must speak the language of the one you want to listen.

    p. 158

11. 

    Imagination is one of our most powerful tools. What we imagine, we can become.

    p. 184

12. 

    Whether we jump or are pushed, or the edge of the known world just crumbles at our feet, we fall, spinning into someplace new and unexpected. Despite our fears of falling, the gifts of the world stand by to catch us.

    p. 8