Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass

Notify me when the book’s added
To read this book, upload an EPUB or FB2 file to Bookmate. How do I upload a book?
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.
This book is currently unavailable
493 printed pages
Original publication
2013
Publication year
2013
Have you already read it? How did you like it?
👍👎

Impressions

  • b5090543314shared an impression3 years ago
    🔮Hidden Depths

    Everyone should read this book!

Quotes

  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quotedlast year
    impatient for the real thing.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quotedlast year
    change my clothes before my mother could think of a chore, and jump across the crick to go wandering in the goldenrod
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quotedlast year
    red plaid book bag,

On the bookshelves

fb2epub
Drag & drop your files (not more than 5 at once)