The quotations of

Robin Wall Kimmerer

American environmentalist

born 1953

12 quotes, most often on Nature and Time.

All powers have two sides, the power to create and the power to destroy. We must recognize them both, but invest our gifts on the side of creation.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 212
- Power
As we give thanks for the Earth, will we live in such a way that the Earth can be grateful for us?
from interviews and conversations (2015)
- Nature
- Thanksgiving
When a language dies, so much more than words are lost. Language is the dwelling place of ideas that do not exist anywhere else. It is a prism through which to see the world.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 258
- Ideas
Time is not a river running inexorably to the sea, but the sea itself⁠—its tides that appear and disappear, the fog that rises to become rain in a different river. All things that were will come again.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 207
- Time
If there is meaning in the past and in the imagined future, it is captured in the moment. When you have all the time in the world, you can spend it, not on going somewhere, but on being where you are.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 296
- Time
The land knows you, even when you are lost.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 36
- Nature
Leadership is rooted not in power and authority, but in service and wisdom.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 112
- Leadership
A harvest is made honorable when it sustains the giver as well as the taker.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 194
- Morality
- Nature
Ceremony is a vehicle for belonging⁠—to a family, to a people, and to the land.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 37
- Family
Through reciprocity the gift is replenished. All of our flourishing is mutual.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 166
To name and describe you must first see, and science polishes the gift of seeing.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 48
- Science
When all the world is a gift in motion, how wealthy we become.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 31
- Money
- Nature

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