“I am the woman with the basket” Kimmerer declares after an immersive walk into the woods searching for leeks, “and how I fill it is the question that matters. If we are fully awake, a moral question arises as we extinguish the other lives around us on behalf of our own”(p.179). In this essay, ‘The Honorable Harvest’, the elders, the Earth, cultures, hunters, animals, and plants pass their wisdom through a judicious and compassionate writer to woo the reader to become a better version of themselves.
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