Reading Notes: The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

Robin Wall Kimmerer

"Why then have we permitted the dominance of economic systems that commoditize everything? That create scarcity instead of abundance, that promote accumulation rather than sharing. We've surrendered our values to an economic system that actively harms what we love ... There is no room in these equations for the economic value of clean air and carbon sequestration and the ineffable riches of a forest filled with birdsong."