Robin Wall Kimmerer The Serviceberry review, recensie en informatie nieuw natuurboek van de Amerikaanse native American schrijfster. Op 19 november 2024 verschijnt bij Allan Lane het nieuwe boek van schrijfster en natuurbeschermer Robin Wall Kimmerer. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is nog niet verkrijgbaar.
Robin Wall Kimmerer The Serviceberry review, recensie en informatie
- “A moving meditation on what a giving tree can teach us about building a fairer society… A compelling argument for a more ethical economy.” (Time)
- “The Serviceberry is a gem of a book. It invites us to think again about economics, and imagine another way of relating to one another based on generosity, kindness, interconnectedness, and restraint. The book reminds us that how we think, and the stories we tell, shape how we live – and it’s high time we thought and lived differently, with new stories, about our place in nature.” (James Rebanks)
- “A delightful new book that reflects on the natural world and how we can derive lessons on gratitude, reciprocity and community to flourish mutually.” (Seattle Times)
The Serviceberry
Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
- Auteur: Robin Wall Kimmerer (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: natuurboek
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Allan Lane
- Verschijnt: 19 november 2024
- Omvang: 128 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Boekhandel / Bol
Flaptekst van het nieuwe boek van Robin Wall Kimmerer
As Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the serviceberry’s relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity, interconnectedness, and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealth—its abundance of sweet, juicy berries—to meet the needs of its natural community. And this distribution insures its own survival. As Kimmerer explains, “Serviceberries show us another model, one based upon reciprocity, where wealth comes from the quality of your relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency.”
As Elizabeth Gilbert writes, Robin Wall Kimmerer is “a great teacher, and her words are a hymn of love to the world.” The Serviceberry is an antidote to the broken relationships and misguided goals of our times, and a reminder that “hoarding won’t save us, all flourishing is mutual.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer is donating her advance payments from this book as a reciprocal gift, back to the land, for land protection, restoration, and justice.
Robin Wall Kimmerer (13 September 1953, Upstate New Yrok) is a mother, scientist, professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants as well as Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. Kimmerer is a 2022 MacArthur Fellow. She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.