Robin Wall Kimmerer
Hardcover | Pages: 391 pages Rating: 4.6 | 9793 Users | 1588 Reviews
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| Title | : | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants |
| Author | : | Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 391 pages |
| Published | : | October 15th 2013 by Milkweed Editions (first published 2013) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Environment. Nature. Science |
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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 lenses of knowledge together to show 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 are we capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learning to give our own gifts in return.Itemize Books Conducive To Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
| Original Title: | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants |
| ISBN: | 1571313354 (ISBN13: 9781571313355) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award (2013), Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers Award for Nonfiction (2015) |
Rating Out Of Books Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Ratings: 4.6 From 9793 Users | 1588 ReviewsPiece Out Of Books Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
A fantastic book I cannot praise it enough. It is a vitally important read for humanity as we see ourselves, how we see the world, our relation to it and how we need each other. While she speaks of greed that chokes the world and ourselves she speaks too of positiveness and what we can do to heal the earth and ourselves. More than recycling bins, carpooling and composting in the garden, we need to reassess ourselves as children of the land. How important the earth is to us and how important weThis is an absolutely brilliant book that joins up indigenous thinking with ecology and botanical science in fascinating ways. Kimmerer points towards a way out of this mess for us all in a series of beautifully crafted essays. I was going to lop a star off because it's a little on the long side and a few of the later essays are more or less repeating earlier points, but it's such an important work that I'm leaving it at 5.
I don't know how to talk about this book. I think it has affected me more than anything else I've ever read.Each time I picked up this book, I sank into the world of plants and meaning, the slow vegetable world, seen jewel-bright from the underside. It was hard to do errands and think strategically. I thought how we use the word "grassroots" as a buzz phrase when applying for grants, to elbow our way into legitimacy, but Robin Wall Kimmerer reminds me that what the roots of grass really mean is
This book has taught me so much, hopefully changed me for the better forever. It was heartbreaking to realize my nearly total disconnection from the earth, and painful to see the world again, slowly and in pieces. I'm sure there is still so much I can't see. But I'm grateful for this book and I recommend it to every single person!
This essay collection is a long meditation on the natural world and our place in it. The author melds her training as a botanist with the knowledge of plants gained through her Native American upbringing to create a more holistic view of the plant kingdom. This is a statement on the hubris of western thought and how it often fails to recognize indigenous wisdom. Although the collection is long and sometimes repetitive, what it has to say is valuable to our current understanding and our future
I feel I must justify my rating of this book as some of my peers would disagree with me. First, I simply did not enjoy the book stylistically. While I treasure creative nonfiction essays, I find Kimmerer's language over-reaching in its poetic pursuits. If this were my only qualm with Braiding Sweetgrass, I would be able to overlook it. However, Kimmerer's lengthy prose-poetry is coupled with an over-generalized critique of American/Western/Christian culture (often conflating all three instead of
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