What Are We Connected To?
A creative prompt for the many connections that shape our world.
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Did you know that there is a strong link between biological diversity and cultural and language diversity?1
Where there are many languages spoken, where there is a rich cultural ecosystem, there is also a rich environmental ecosystem. I learned this earlier this week when I had the joy of hearing Robin Wall Kimmerer speak in Missoula. It was one of many seeds planted. My mind still feels full from that evening.
If you’ve read Kimmerer’s book Braiding Sweetgrass, then perhaps you have started looking at the natural world around you in a different way. You are perhaps looking at your own role in it in a different way. You are hopefully considering how we humans change our relationship to the land from one that’s based on a model of taking, of extracting, to one that’s based off of reciprocity. A relationship that’s not defined by taking something but taking part in something.
As Kimmerer said, land can be seen as “a source of belongings or a source of belonging.”