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

"(...) ecosystem services, the structures and functions of the natural world that make life possible. We can assign an economic value to maple timber, or gallons of syrup, but ecosystem services are far more precious. And yet these services go unaccounted for in the human economy. (...) we don't think about them unless they are missing. 🥺

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"If we allow traditions to die, relationships to fade, the land will suffer. These laws are the product of hard experience, of past mistakes. And not all plants are the same; each has its own way of regenerating. Some, unlike sweetgrass, are easily harmed by harvest. (...) the key is to know them well enough to respect the difference."

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