Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmerer (1953 - ) is a mother, scientist, decorated professor and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology.
Even a wounded world is feeding us.
Even a wounded world holds us, giving us
moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy
over despair. Not because I have my head
in the sand, but because joy
is what the Earth gives me
daily and I must return the gift.
— Robin Wall Kimmerer
