Planting is definitely more Kimmerer’s style. Her garden outside Syracuse, of which she said she is the “lucky steward,” is 7 ...

"The earth is my mother, and on her bosom I shall repose." Attributed to Tecumseh in the early 1800s, this statement is frequently cited to uphold the view, long and widely proclaimed in scholarly and ...

Mother Earth is clearly urging a call to action. Nature is suffering. Oceans filling with plastic and turning more acidic. Extreme heat, wildfires and floods, have affected millions of people.

The slogan refers to increased drilling for petroleum and gas from the Earth. Kimmerer instead offers that Mother Earth is a generous relative and not an objective for exploitation. “It’s as ...