Tasting maple sap directly evokes the experience of being nursed by the earth

Evidence

My girls watch in fascination. Each drop is as clear as water but somehow thicker, catching the light and hanging for a second at the end of the spile, growing invitingly into a larger and larger drop. The girls stretch out their tongues and slurp with a look of bliss, and unaccountably I am moved to tears. It reminds me of when I alone fed them. Now, on sturdy young legs, they are nursed by a maple—as close as they can come to being suckled by Mother Earth. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 221

Categorization

• XREF: The earth-as-nursing-mother image bridges to ecofeminism (the polyad’s shared ecofeminist thread) and to the Skywoman falling-woman creation where the earth bears the woman’s body. — connects to: Eating maple makes maple carbon part of human bodies, joining species — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 610

Broader Connections

• Eating maple makes maple carbon part of human bodies, joining species #expands (0.75) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 610