Our work and our joy is to pass along the gift and to trust that what we put out into the universe will always come back.’ In many ways, this captures the quintessence of Kimmerer’s book as she writes of reciprocity, recognising and nurturing the gifts in the world and celebrating the democracy of species and mutual flourishing. Their life is in their movement, the inhale and the exhale of our shared breath. ‘We are showered every day with gifts, but they are not meant for us to keep. As a writer and a scientist, her interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of our relationships to land. In 2015, she addressed the general assembly of the United Nations on the topic of “Healing Our Relationship with Nature.” She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants and Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses.
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
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