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Chapter 1 - Indigenous Teaching: Nature Protects You as Long as You Protect Nature is a spiritually and culturally moving and powerful chapter, detailing mainly the story from Dr. Hernandez’s father which led to the naming of the book “Fresh Banana Leaves”. This chapter places these experiences within cultural contexts and explains the role settler colonialism, war, and trauma plays in Indigenous communities.

Chapter 5: Realms of the Soil felt like it lacked depth seen in previous chapters, likely due to less overall depth of knowledge existing in the academic space on soil microorganisms at the time of Silent Spring’s publication.

Groundbreaking for the time