The Democracy of Species

Summary

A slim volume from Potawatomi botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer, part of Penguin’s ‘Green Ideas’ series of environmental classics. Penguin presents it as a guide to living with an earth that is alive and animate, in a relationship of reciprocity and gratitude, and some joy too, whether we’re gathering wild leeks or meeting deer in the woods.

Rationale

Reciprocity and gratitude, the heart of this short book, are two of the things we say feel intuitive from within interbeing; Kimmerer shows them lived.