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Kimmerer brings together ecology, indigenous knowledge and everyday practices into a bright reminder that reciprocity and gratitude grow abundance.

“Gratitude and reciprocity are the currency of the gift economy, and they have the remarkable property of multiplying with every exchange, their energy concentrating as they pass from hand to hand, a truly renewable resource” p.14

“Foxes, stoats, weasels and other natural predators of grouse are shot or caught in traps. Even beautiful mountain hares are exterminated, because the ticks they carry can spread disease to grouse.” P. 97
Is this part of the reason why predator reintroduction in England is near nonexistent? The threat it poses to the hunting practices of the elite?

“The genteel image of the aristocracy today, epitomised in costume dramas and tea and cakes in country houses, masks an early history that was written in blood.”p.77

Ownership is assumed or obscured which mars power dynamics. But who took land from the Church? The crown gave it to noble families or vicars sold it and it was used for development hence the commonly named “Glebe Close”. But- church still a vast land owner.

Rollercoaster!!! I thought sir Henry was killed but it was Selden, the prison escapee. His poor sister!
Also how was Holmes the guy hiding in the hovel on the moor all the time?!?