As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of
nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi
Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest
teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of
knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic
as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is
wise" (Elizabeth Gilbert).
Drawing on her life as an
indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other
living beings-asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash,
salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass-offer us gifts and lessons, even if
we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In a rich braid of reflections
that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that
threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument:
that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the
acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the
rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of
other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the
earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.
Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer
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