CJ’s Reviews > Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants > Status Update
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"... but knowing it would be given, not sold, I decided I could do without. It's funny. Had all the things in the market merely been a very low price, I probably would have scooped up as much as I could. But when everything became a gift, I felt self-restraint. I didn't want to take too much."
— Oct 24, 2021 10:52PM
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"This is really why I made my daughters learn to garden—so they would always have a mother to love them, long after I am gone.”
— Oct 27, 2021 06:03PM
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"Balance is not a passive resting place—it takes work, balancing the giving and the taking, the raking out and the putting in."
— Oct 26, 2021 12:55AM
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"Our toddlers speak of plants and animals as if they were people, extending to them self and intention and compassion — until we teach them not to. We quickly retrain them and make them forget. When we tell them that the tree is not a who, but an it, we make that maple an object; we put a barrier between us, absolving ourselves of moral responsibility and opening the door to exploitation."
— Oct 25, 2021 10:00PM
