"But isn't play the way we get limbered up for the work of the world?"
–– Robin Wall Kimmerer (b. 1953), American writer, ecologist, botanist, professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation
Source: Robin Wall Kimmerer. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Milkweed Editions, 2013; p. 94.
Listening to Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass and then reading a physical copy once the first lockdown was over got me through the pandemic. I would read a chapter before bed to calm my stressed mind.
