Respect for a plant can be enacted through sustainable harvest itself
Evidence
The question was, how do we show respect? Sweetgrass told us the answer as we experimented: sustainable harvesting can be the way we treat a plant with respect, by respectfully receiving its gift. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 582
Categorization
- XREF: This is the hinge payoff: scientific experiment and ceremony arrive at the same conclusion, bridging the Listening/observation-as-method thread and Indigenous/eco-justice knowledge frames. — connects to: A plant species persists where it is harvested respectfully and departs where ignored. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 546; Some plants now depend on specific human harvesting practices to survive — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 499; Indigenous harvesting practices are environmental factors plants depend on for survival — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 499 (+5 more)
- SEED: Potential essay angle: how a Western experiment confirmed — and was confirmed by — an Indigenous teaching, as a model for reciprocal, non-extractive research.
Broader Connections
- Accepting a plant’s gift can itself stimulate that plant’s renewal
#expands(0.85) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 583 - Some plants now depend on specific human harvesting practices to survive
#expands(0.78) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 499 - Indigenous harvesting practices are environmental factors plants depend on for survival
#qualifies(0.75) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 499