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Braiding Sweetgrass

Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

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Braiding Sweetgrass

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers.

In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans as "the younger brothers of creation". As she explores these themes, she circles toward a central argument: The awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgement and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the world. Once we begin to listen for the languages of other beings, we can begin to understand the innumerable life-giving gifts the world provides us and learn to offer our thanks, our care, and our own gifts in return.

©2013 Robin Wall Kimmerer (P)2016 Tantor Outdoors & Nature Science Social Sciences
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A gem of a book read by its brilliant author. Thank you so much Robin, I look forward to many more of your teachings.

An Education and a Poem.

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This is a beautiful and captivating book about our relationship with nature and our place in it.

An ode to nature narrated by the author

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One of the most important (audio) books in my live. Beautifully performed. I enjoyed every second of it.

The greatest lesson of connection-oriented ecology

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a must read/listen! Absolutely awe inspiring and simply inspiring also and just fascinating too. Read by the author made it even more memorable. I will listen to it again as it is so rich!
With much gratitude xoxoxo

Wonderful !

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