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From the #1New York Timesbestselling author ofBraiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world.
As Indigenous scientist and author ofBraiding SweetgrassRobin WallKimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the serviceberrys relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity,interconnectedness, and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealthits abundance of sweet, juicy berriesto meet the needs of its natural community. And this distribution insures its own survival. As Kimmerer explains, Serviceberries show us another model, one based upon reciprocity, where wealth comes from the quality of your relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency.
As Elizabeth Gilbert writes, Robin Wall Kimmerer is a great teacher, and herwords are a hymn of love to the world.The Serviceberryis an antidote to the broken relationships and misguided goals of our times, and a reminder that hoarding wont save us, all flourishing is mutual.
