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

from lisalangford

I loved this book. I was fortunate enough to listen to it on audio, read by the author. Kimmerer is a member of the Potawatomi Nation and is a scientist. I so appreciated her melding of science and the indigenous way of seeing the world and being in the world. Listening to her read the book felt ...

from GailNyoka

You might call the chapters in Braiding Sweetgrass, essays. I call them stories, and stories within stories. This book is a love song to the earth. Robin Wall Kimmerer weaves together scientific research and the traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples in such a way that she reminds the reader...

from Jolynne

Heartbreaking to think of the things that are gone from this earth and terrifying to know we are on the brink of losing so much more. In the end the author gives a ray of hope. From the author - "Weep! Weep! calls a toad from the waters edge. And I do. If grief can be a doorway to love, then let ...

from japaul22

[Braiding Sweetgrass] by [[Robin Wall Kimmerer]] Braiding Sweetgrass is a collection of essays exploring Indigenous relationships with plants and the earth. Kimmerer is a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and also a botanist who teaches at traditional American universities. She explores th...

from spinsterrevival

This was beautiful and moving and fascinating and sad, and I cried listening to many parts of it. The loss of land and place and language is incomprehensible, yet the Indigenous people who have had so much taken from them are still taking care of the earth/Earth.