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

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Kimmerer, Robin Wall

Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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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.|A New York Times bestseller
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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.

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Botany -- Philosophy
Ethnoecology
Human ecology -- Philosophy
Human-plant relationships
Indian philosophy -- North America
Indigenous peoples -- Ecology
Indigenous philosophy -- North America
Kimmerer, Robin Wall
Nature -- Effect of human beings on
Philosophy of nature
Potawatomi -- Biography
Potawatomi -- Social life and customs
Potawatomi Indians -- Biography
Potawatomi Indians -- Social life and customs

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

Braiding Sweetgrass Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Braiding sweetgrass / indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants / Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass

Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Biography
Botany
Ecology
Effect of human beings on
Ethnoecology
Human ecology
Human-plant relationships
Indian philosophy
Indigenous peoples
Indigenous philosophy
Kimmerer, Robin Wall
Nature
Nonfiction
Philosophy
Philosophy of nature
Potawatomi
Potawatomi Indians
Social life and customs
Sociology