Knowing Our Place by Barbara Kingsolver
The Sustainability Book Club read and discussed Barbara Kingsolver's essay, "Knowing Our Place," from her book SMALL WONDER (2002). The author stresses the need of humans to have contact with the natural world. She expresses gratitude for having been able to look out upon wildness and to expose her children to it; she regrets generations of children who have not, who do not know where food comes from, or what walking barefoot in grass feels like. There was a lively member discussion, recalling their own early contacts with wildness and how it affected their life attitudes.