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KIMMERER ROBIN WALL THE SERVICEBERRY

An Instant New York Times Bestseller     From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of
Braiding 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 of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer 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 serviceberry’s relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of
reciprocity  interconnectedness  and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealth—its abundance
of sweet  juicy berries—to meet the needs of its natural community. And this distribution
ensures 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 her words are a hymn of love to the world.” The Serviceberry is an antidote to the
broken relationships and misguided goals of our times  and a reminder that “hoarding won’t save
us  all flourishing is mutual.”    Robin Wall Kimmerer is donating her advance payments from
this book as a reciprocal gift  back to the land  for land protection  restoration  and
justice.

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