Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants
Publisher: London : Penguin Books, 2020Copyright date: ©2013Description: x, 390 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780141991955
- 014199195X
- E98 .P5 2020
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Originally published: Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2013.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.