“One of our responsibilities as human people is to find ways to enter into reciprocity with the more-than-human world. We can do it through gratitude, through ceremony, through land stewardship, science, art, and in everyday acts of practical reverence.”
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
Resources
I’ll add more to this list as I find things.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
“Returning the Gift,” by Robin Kimmerer
Blog post: Invoking Gratitude the Haudenosaunee Way
Blog post: How to Reconnect With Nature
Blog post: Gratitude and Oranges
“We could lament that urban dwellers have little means of exercising direct reciprocity with the land. Yet while city folks may be separated from the sources of what they consume, they can exercise reciprocity through how they spend their money. . .. We can use our dollars as the indirect currency of reciprocity.”
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass