Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Description

A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Bestseller Named a “Best Essay
Collection of the Decade” by Literary Hub 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, and as 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
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 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. Read more

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Product Details:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Milkweed Editions; First Edition (August 11, 2015)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 408 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1571313567
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 60
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.53 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.4 x 1 x 8.4 inches
• Best Sellers Rank: #432 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1 in Nature Writing & Essays #1 in Botany (Books) #1 in Ecology (Books)
• #1 in Nature Writing & Essays
• #1 in Botany (Books)