Lydia 🌙’s Reviews > Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants > Status Update

“We don’t have to figure out everything by ourselves: there are intelligences other than our own, teachers all around us. Imagine how much less lonely the world would be.”

“What else can you offer the earth, which has everything? What else can you give but something of yourself?”

“And here we all are, on Turtle Island, trying to make a home. Their stories, of arrivals with empty pockets and nothing but hope, resonates with Skywoman’s. She came here with nothing but a handful of seeds and the slimmest of instructions to “use your gifts and dreams for good,” the same instructions we all carry”