Sweetgrass recolonizing disrupted land teaches that brokenness lies in human-land relationship

Evidence

There she was—sweetgrass—growing in one of the last places I might ever have expected. But I should have known better. Tentatively sending out rhizomes through the sludge, slender tillers marching bravely away, sweetgrass is a teacher of healing, a symbol of kindness and compassion. She reminded me that it is not the land that has been broken, but our relationship to it. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1232

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Settler violence and dispossession are ecological harms when measured by relational resilience — Kyle Whyte, Settler Colonialism, Ecology, and…, 97; Societal ills stem partly from separation from reciprocal land love — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 441; Sweetgrass renewal after harvest signals the plant’s mutual need for people — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 585 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Human-nature relationship admits the same negotiated conflicts as human relationships #expands (0.82) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 516