Braiding Sweetgrass

Release on 2020-04-23 | by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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 ways of knowledge together.

Author: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9780141991962
Category: Nature
Page: 400
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Braiding Sweetgrass

'A hymn of love to the world ... 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, author of Eat, Pray, Love 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 ways of knowledge together. Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and 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 a rich braid of 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 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 will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.

Language: en
Pages: 400

Braiding Sweetgrass

Authors: Robin Wall Kimmerer

Categories: Nature

Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-23 - Publisher: Penguin UK

Language: en
Pages:

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

Authors: Robin Wall Kimmerer

Categories: Antiques & Collectibles

Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher: almohreraladbi

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Language: en
Pages: 66

Study Guide

Authors: Supersummary

Categories: Antiques & Collectibles

Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-08 - Publisher:

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides for challenging works of literature. This 65-page guide for "Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 32 chapters, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written literary analysis. Featured content includes

Language: en
Pages: 72

Minidewak

Authors: Robin Wall Kimmerer, Minnesota Center for Book Arts

Categories: Artists' books

Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher:

Books about Minidewak

Language: en
Pages: 368

Motorcycles & Sweetgrass

Authors: Drew Hayden Taylor

Categories: Fiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-09 - Publisher: Knopf Canada

A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons. Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle – and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie,