EAN: 9781571313560

BRAIDING SWEETGRASS - ROBIN WALL KIMMERER KARTO...

A New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Readers Pick  #1 New York Times Bestseller
A Washington Post and Los Angeles Times Bestseller 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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