Landscape beings raise a person into their sense of place and world
Evidence
In a way, I was raised by strawberries, fields of them. Not to exclude the maples, hemlocks, white pines, goldenrod, asters, violets, and mosses of upstate New York, but it was the wild strawberries, beneath dewy leaves on an almost-summer morning, who gave me my sense of the world, my place in it. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 83
Categorization
- XREF: Echoes Evon Peter’s self-introduction as ‘a boy who was raised by a river’ — a model of place-based identity relevant to the Reading the Landscape course and to the polyad’s land/place thread. — connects to: Landscape reading is a learned language that fosters intimacy with place — Tom Wessels, Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to…, 9; Landscape ‘raising’ a person blends literal nurture with spiritual teaching — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 82; Embodied memory and felt landmarks constitute a profound knowing of place — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural…, 40 (+4 more)
- SEED: Use this as the methodological opening for the integrative paper: personhood conferred by place as a shared Indigenous-botanical framing.
Broader Connections
- Landscape ‘raising’ a person blends literal nurture with spiritual teaching
#expands(0.95) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 82 - Allowing surroundings to subsist is what turns environment into a lived world
#expands(0.85) - Embodied memory and felt landmarks constitute a profound knowing of place
#corroborates(0.75) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss, 40 - A place has a soul and an intelligence that seeks to heal itself
#expands(0.70) — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 192