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

“The arrogance of English is that the only way to be animate, to be worthy of respect and moral concern, is to be human…If a maple [tree] is an ‘it,’ we can take up the chain saw.”

theory neglects variation. science overlooks spirituality. — a new species of knowledge. we need a new way to look at the world, a way to encompass all that it is.