At the foundation of fixing the biodiversity crisis is plants.
From plants, all other life springs. This is because plants are what convert our solar system’s fusion energy – the sun – into substance. That substance is what everything else on this planet, including you and me, eats to live.
“The question of goldenrod and asters was of course just emblematic of what I really wanted to know. It was an architecture of relationships, of connections that I yearned to understand. I wanted to see the shimmering threads that hold it all together. And I wanted to know why we love the world, why the most ordinary scrap of meadow can rock us back on our heels in awe.”
– Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass