This book made me want to cry and then go camping.
And also think a lot about both gift and obligation and the relationship between my faith and the kind of interdependence that Kimmerer argues for. (And what it means to read the best of one culture and think about the worst of your own.)
What does it mean to translate לעבדה ולשמרה as our commandment towards the land as to "to serve and to guard" instead of to work. Avodah is work, but is also the word for the work/service of God. What if we thought of working the land as the same work that we do to serve God. The difference between working something and, while working it, also working for it. It's all the difference.
Once again (ir)rationally angry at the destruction of old growth forests. (It has replaced The Library of Alexandria in the thing that upsets me the most that humans destroyed without thought.)