Robin Wall Kimmerer speaks in such a quiet yet captivating way and her writing makes me reconsider the way I think. This book in particular calls into question the idea of manufactured scarcity. Nature produces resources like clean air and water in plentiful abundance and these resources cannot be commodified until we create an environment of scarcity. There is enough food to feed everyone on the planet but people are still starving because of inequitable access to resources. The entire concept of land ownership is unnatural and traps us in this transactional relationship of wage labor. How different would the world be if we chose to exist in opposition to market economies and instead turn to the gift economy, which operates on generosity and mutual trust? Moreover, how can we shift our consumption-driven mindset to resist the urge to hoard for ourselves and instead partake in a more honorable harvest? I appreciated the overall message but reading this after Braiding Sweetgrass left me feeling that the book was a bit lacking in new ideas. For how short this is, the writing could have also been tighter in my opinion, as the somewhat stream-of-consciousness organization felt quite repetitive.