“To name the world as gift is to feel your membership in the web of reciprocity.” p22
“I lament my own immersion in an economy that grinds what is beautiful and unique into dollars, converts gifts to commodities in a currency that enables us to purchase things we don’t really need while destroying the things we do.” p72
“A perception of abundance, based on the notion that there is enough if we share it, underlies economies of mutual support.” p75
“Both of these tools – incremental change and creative disruption -are available to us as agents of cultural transformation.” p101
Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry – an economy of gifts and abundance, 2025.