04594cam a2200961 4500 2577787843 TxAuBib 20250930120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781668072257 1668072254 B0CVYFVDG3 Amazon 867ed12f-7f2f-49ff-adf0-563834aaeb32 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10516500 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Kimmerer, Robin Wall. The Serviceberry [Libby eBook] : Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World. Scribner, 2024. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. native american history month. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. native american teaching. Native American authors. indigenous knowledge. Learning From Nature. Braiding Sweetgrass. books about nature. books about plants. indigenous authors. indigenous wisdom. Robert Macfarlane. cultural history. short gift books. is a river alive. Native American. Economic Theory. Natural history. christmas gifts. anticapitalist. richard powers. native authors. anticapitalism. gathering moss. Natural World. anthropology. Planet Earth. Oliver Sacks. gift economy. mother earth. serviceberry. ethnobotany. short books. mary oliver. nature book. Gift Books. indigenous. Earth Day. Gardening. gratitude. Sociology. foraging. Farming. Science. Forests. Biology. Ecology. Nature. trees . plants. Botany. earth. Nahm. HTML:<b>An Instant <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller</b><br /> <br /> <b>From the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Braiding Sweetgrass</i>, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world.</b><br /> As Indigenous scientist and author of <i>Braiding Sweetgrass</i> 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."<br /> <br /> As Elizabeth Gilbert writes, Robin Wall Kimmerer is "a great teacher, and her words are a hymn of love to the world." <i>The Serviceberry</i> 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."<br /> <br /> <i>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.</i>. Nonfiction. Sociology. Science. Nature. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-09-30 20:00:03. Burgoyne, John. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=867ed12f-7f2f-49ff-adf0-563834aaeb32&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=867ed12f-7f2f-49ff-adf0-563834aaeb32&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXTLL