Name: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
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Author: Robin Wall Kimmerer
ISBN: 9780141991955

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

Type

Physical Book

Author

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

400

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780141991955

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

Robin Wall Kimmerer (Author) · Penguin · Paperback

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

'A hymn of love to the world ... 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, author of Eat, Pray, LoveAs 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 ways of knowledge together. 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. In a rich braid of 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 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 will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

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She is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Her first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, received the John Burroughs Medal and her writings have appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. In 2022, Monique Gray Smith adapted Braiding Sweetgrass for young adults. Robin conducts numerous tours. In 2015, she addressed the United Nations General Assembly on the topic "Healing our relationship with nature". She holds a Bachelor's degree in Botany from SUNY ESF, a master's and a PhD in Botany from the University of Wisconsin, and is the author of numerous scientific papers. She lives on an old farm in upstate New York and tends both cultivated and wild gardens.

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