Humble everyday plants merit humble everyday forms of honor

Evidence

As far as I know, there is no special ceremony for mosses. Maybe it’s more fitting to honor these small everyday plants in small everyday ways. Cradling our babies, holding our blood, stanching a wound, keeping out the cold—isn’t this the way we find our place, by participation in the life of the world? — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss, 439

Categorization

• APHORISMS: A quietly profound life-wisdom: that participation and belonging, not grand ceremony, is how we honor the modest everyday things that sustain us.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Naming any being by name is an act of respect that builds relationship — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural…, 81