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.
