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The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
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Robin Wall Kimmerer uses Indigenous wisdom, and her knowledge as a botanist and an ecologist to write about the reciprocity in nature and a gift economy. Photosynthesis and respiration--with the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide--is the ultimate gift exchange in nature. She also uses Serviceberries (Juneberries) as her example of the interconnectedness in nature:

"This pail of Juneberries represents hundreds of gift exchanges that led up to my blue-stained fingers: the Maples who gave their l
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