Robin Wall Kimmerer: What is nature teaching us that we’re too distracted to see?

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What is nature trying to teach us that we’re too distracted to notice? Botanist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer joins Vivek for a conversation about slowing down and paying attention to the living world around us. She invites us to see the land as “not something but someone.” Robin is a scientist, a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and the author of the beloved bestsellers Braiding Sweetgrass, Gathering Moss, and The Serviceberry. For decades she has helped people see nature through both science and Indigenous wisdom. In this episode: Why we feel more alive and at ease in nature, and what gets in the way How our phones and busy lives pull our attention away from the world around us…