Braiding Sweetgrass

Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

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Author

Contributions

Mary Austin Speaker - Cover Design
Cindy Hughes - Cover Photographs
Dale Kakkak - Author Photographer

Publication

2013 - Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Language

English

Word Count

102,000 words, Guess

Page Count

408 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

Open LibraryOL26434282M
ISBN-139781571313560
OCLC Control Number862939983
OCLC Control Number868925013
OCLC Control Number1037250213

and 1 more

Library of Congress Control Number2013012563

Classifications

DDC305.597 - dc23
LCCE98.P5K56 2015

Description

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 lenses of knowledge together to show 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 are we capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learning to give our own gifts in return.

Description

Called the work of "a mesmerizing storyteller with deep compassion and memorable prose" (Publishers Weekly) and the book that, "anyone interested in natural history, botany, protecting nature, or Native American culture will love," by Library Journal, Braiding Sweetgrass is poised to be a classic of nature writing. As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer asks questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces indigenous teachings that consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. 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 offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices.