Reciprocity with the land is possible even where land and nature are absent

Evidence

It takes real effort to remember that it’s not just in a wigwam that the earth gives us everything we need. The exchange of recognition, gratitude, and reciprocity for these gifts is just as important in a Brooklyn flat as under a birch bark roof. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 867

Categorization

• XREF: Urbane nature and human-nature relationship; counters the assumption that only rural or wilderness settings permit ecological kinship. — connects to: Land’s meaning survived when every other possession was stripped away — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 70; Earth gives unasked yet may itself be nourished by our giving — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 353; A Three Sisters garden physically embodies the ethic of reciprocity — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 459 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Reciprocity with the earth is a hard-won harmony, not a naturally given state #qualifies (0.75) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1377