Robin Wall Kimmerer: What Does the Earth Ask of You Today?
Sounds True: Insights at the Edge
Tami Simon
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
What if the natural world isn’t a warehouse of resources—but a landscape of gifts? Tami Simon speaks with Robin Wall Kimmerer, botanist, author of Braiding Sweetgrass, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, about living in reciprocal relationship with the earth, overcoming brain chauvinism, and why the most radical act in a time of climate crisis may be remembering who we truly are.
This conversation offers genuine transmission—not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together. Originally aired on Sounds True One.
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| 0:00.0 | The Sounds True Podcast Network. |
| 0:07.3 | A commodity is really just a thing. |
| 0:10.2 | It's an object. |
| 0:11.1 | But when we move to the notion that the food that we eat, |
| 0:16.9 | the air that we breathe that wonderful drink of cold water |
| 0:20.1 | is a gift from Skkakmi Kui, |
| 0:23.6 | from Mother Earth. |
| 0:25.1 | It's a relationship |
| 0:26.7 | and a reciprocal relationship. |
| 0:32.5 | Hello, friends. |
| 0:33.9 | In this episode of Insights at the Edge, |
| 0:36.5 | my guest is Robin Wall Kimmerer. |
| 0:39.7 | Robin is a scientist and a brilliant writer, best known as the author of the widely acclaimed |
| 0:46.1 | book, Braiding Sweetgrass, Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants. |
| 0:54.3 | She's a mother, a decorated professor, an enrolled member of the citizen, Potawatomi Nation. |
| 1:02.8 | She's a tremendously gifted storyteller and educator, who is currently 72 years old and living in a farmhouse in upstate New York, |
| 1:15.7 | writing, speaking, teaching, and tending gardens, both cultivated and wild. In 2025, |
| 1:24.1 | she launched a new movement. It's called Plant Baby Plant, a way for individuals to be involved in loving the natural world around us, and we're going to talk about that. |
| 1:38.6 | Friends, stay with us. |
| 1:45.4 | This episode is brought to you by Squarespace. |
| 1:49.3 | In my experience, every creative endeavor is a type of collaborative sport. |
| 1:55.8 | Writers collaborate with editors, athletes with trainers, podcasters with producers, on and on. Choose your collaborators |
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