![]() ![]() It’s been a long time since a book made me pause so often to hold my breath and re-read a passage, just for the sheer beauty of the prose. In its pages, she conveys messages which we would do well to heed and carry always in our hearts. She writes with a style that could easily be disguised as poetry. ![]() I learned a lot from the light she shines into some dark corners. The author is very clear-eyed about the wounds inflicted on our planet and on our indigenous peoples. Not all of the walks are sweetness and light. One of them is a tour of our county’s Cascade Head and its Salmon River estuary. Each essay is a little like a delightful nature walk in a different place and time. Throughout the book, she manages to braid together indigenous spirituality and history with botanical science and ecology. It’s 410 page book, but don’t let that put you off. The book is a collection of 32 well-crafted essays. Her writing reveals that she never lost her love of poetry. ![]() She opted for plant science and earned bachelors and masters degrees in botany and a PhD in plant ecology. In college, she wasn’t sure if she wanted to study plant science or poetry. Robin Wall Kimmerer is a professor and a citizen of the Potawatomi* nation. ![]() “For all of us, becoming indigenous to a place means living as if your children’s future mattered, to take care of the land as if our lives, both material and spiritual, depend on it.” ![]()
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