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Annika Hansteen-Izora
the earth teaches us lessons about love
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Gardens are simultaneously a material and a spiritual undertaking. That’s hard for scientists, so fully brainwashed by Cartesian dualism, to grasp. “Well, how would you know it’s love and not just good soil?” she asks. “Where’s the evidence? What are the key elements for detecting loving behavior?”

That’s easy. No one would doubt that I love my children, and even a quantitative social psychologist would find no fault with my list of loving behaviors:

• nurturing health and well-being
• protection from harm
• encouraging individual growth and development
• desire to be together
• generous sharing of resources
• working together for a common goal
• celebration of shared values
• interdependence
• sacrifice by one for the other
• creation of beauty

If we observed these behaviors between humans, we would say, “She loves that person.” You might also observe these actions between a person and a bit of carefully tended ground and say, “She loves that garden.” Why then, seeing this list, would you not make the leap to say that the garden loves her back?

The exchange between plants and people has shaped the evolutionary history of both.

Excerpt from Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Kimmerer

Gardens, Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Kimm…

“People often ask me what one thing I would recommend to restore relationship between land and people. My answer is almost always, “Plant a garden.” It’s good for the health of the earth and it’s good for the health of people. A garden is a nursery for nurturing connection, the soil for cultivation of practical reverence. And its power goes far beyond the garden gate—once you develop a relationship with a little patch of earth, it becomes a seed itself."

Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Kimmerer

Plant a Garden, Braiding Sweetgrass, Ro…

"Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength-in search of my mother's garden, I found my own."

Alice Walker, In Search of our Mother's Gardens, 1967

Alice Walker, In Search of our Mother's…

"White supremacy is what is destabilizing the earth system, not ‘humanity.’"

K.D. Wilson

Who’s Man is This? Black Radical Ecolog…
black ecology — bilphena’s library
black ecology — bilphena’s library

And yet, there is so much more that trees have to teach us about time itself. The first is that it’s circular. We grow not only taller, but wider—circles within circles, every iteration of ourselves contained within, written in the repetition of our rings. We grow both older and younger. The second is that there is a season for everything. Time passes both quickly and slowly, as does our growth. The third is that, like the years of a tree as reflected in its rings, time is defined by both the dark and the light. Without either, we would not be able to read its passage.

Black Feminist Ecological Thought: A Manifesto
Black Feminist Ecological Thought: A Ma…
how_to_interview_a_plant.pdf.pdf
how_to_interview_a_plant.pdf.pdf
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"Look at the network, and it starts to look back at you."

-- Merlin Sheldrake, "Entangled Life"

The Secret Language of Trees
The Secret Language of Trees
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