Note on Braiding Sweetgrass via Robin Wall Kimmerer

She taught me one of the cardinal rules of gathering plants:

“Never take the first plant you find, as it might be the last—and you want that first one to speak well of you to the others of her kind.”

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FROM:

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass

Never exhausting a resource ensures it’s always there. Seems obvious but it is often forgotten. One of the rules of the Honorable Harvest.