Priscilla Stuckey

Reconnecting people with nature through writing and spirituality

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41. Why is the world so beautiful?

Transcript “Why is the world so beautiful?” This question inspired a young plant-loving woman of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation to go to college and study botany. Robin Wall Kimmerer tells the story in her luminous book Braiding Sweetgrass—how this question guided her as she earned a PhD and became a professor of botany, and how…  Read More…

26. What’s good for creeks

Transcript Twenty years ago this summer I started something new. Something I had no idea how to do. It was related to the creek that ran beside our house in Oakland. I’d moved onto the property a few years before, charmed by the old house on a steep hill and especially by the seasonal creek…  Read More…

What about that cheatgrass?

So my friend Jeannie, who works in land conservation, reminded me last week: A long time ago, you and I had a conversation about cheatgrass. I maintained that it was noxious and provided no nourishment while depleting scarce water resources and taking over where native plants would have thrived. You said that all plants have…  Read More…