Reciprocity is an investment in abundance for both the eater and the eaten. That ethic of reciprocity was cleared away along with the forests, the beauty of justice traded away for more stuff.… If the Earth is nothing more than inanimate matter, if lives are nothing more than commodities, then the way of the Honorable Harvest, too, is dead. But when you stand in the stirring spring woods, you know otherwise. It is an animate Earth that we hear calling to us to feed the martens and kiss the rice. Wild leeks and wild ideas are in jeopardy. We have to transplant them both and nurture their return
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