This small book was given to me as a Christmas present. It is very short — I read it in an evening — and found it lovely.

Although, now I must say I am forgetting the details! I did close the book convinced that I need to read her longer book, Braiding Sweetgrass.

I do remember one quote that has stuck with me, and which I have been meditating on endlessly since finishing the book: “If there’s not enough of the think you want, learn to want something else”. Wall Kimmer grounds this lesson as something that we learn from evolution and the natural world. I find it extremely potent and often useful, in how I think about small things, and big ones.