Robin Wall Kimmerer Quotes

Our Immigrant Plant Teachers Offer A Lot Of Different Models For How Not To Make Themselves Welcome On A New Continent. Garlic Mustard Poisons The Soil So That Native Species Will Die. Tamarisk Uses Up All The Water. Foreign Invaders Like Loosestrife, Kudzu, And Cheat Grass Have The Colonizing Habit Of Taking Over Others' Homes And Growing Without Regard To Limits. But Plantain Is Not Like That. Its Strategy Was To Be Useful, To Fit Into Small Places, To Coexist With Others Around The Dooryard, To Heal Wounds. Plantain Is So Prevalent, So Well Integrated, That We Think Of It As Native. It Has Earned The Name Bestowed By Botanists For Plants That Have Become Our Own. Plantain Is Not Indigenous But "naturalized." This Is The Same Term We Use For The Foreign-born When They Become Citizens In Our Country.

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