Braiding Sweetgrass

Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

hardcover, 456 pages

Published Oct. 13, 2020 by Milkweed Editions.

ISBN:
978-1-57131-177-1
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OCLC Number:
1143651514

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4 stars (77 reviews)

Updated with a new introduction from Robin Wall Kimmerer, the special edition of Braiding Sweetgrass, reissued in honor of the fortieth anniversary of Milkweed Editions, celebrates the book as an object of meaning that will last the ages. Beautifully bound in stamped linen cloth with a bookmark ribbon and a deckled edge, this edition features five brilliantly colored illustrations by artist Nate Christopherson. In increasingly dark times, we honor the experience that more than 350,000 readers in North America have cherished about the book--gentle, simple, tactile, beautiful, even sacred--and offer an edition that will inspire readers to gift it again and again, spreading the word about scientific knowledge, indigenous wisdom, and the teachings of plants.

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 …

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Review of 'Braiding Sweetgrass' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Beautifully written essays. This was a slow listen, but good and important. It presents a different, sustainable approach to how we should relate to the Earth. Instead of exploiting the Earth and commoditizing its resources, she urges us to cultivate a culture of gratitude and an economy of the commons.

That said: I listened to one essay between other things I was reading. This isn't the type of book I could imagine reading from cover to cover.

Review of 'Braiding Sweetgrass' on 'GoodReads'

5 stars

It is so amazingly fantastically validating and wonderful to see how Kimmerer, who is an honest to god scientist, can hold the truths of science and the truths that the world and all its creatures are beautiful generous beings that we need to rebuild a relationship of care and reciprocity with. That these truths strengthen eachother rather than conflict. God I want everyone to read this book.

Review of 'BRAIDING SWEETGRASS' on Goodreads

5 stars

Stunning essays on nature and living, connecting simultaneously in personal indigenous stories of responsibility and care and in scientific understanding of botanical processes and systems. Every description I've tried to give this (and the sub-title and book blurbs too) makes it seem drier and hippier than it is, really a warm and active use of all the threads in the author's life story to make a Rachel Carson-like plea for a change in our personal and societal relationship to the living world which we cannot separate ourselves from. Fun juxtaposition to Lab Girl, a similar voice and subjects but this is definitely the calmer mother focused on retelling stories and nurturing her undergraduate students view of the world, rather than an obsessive scientist in love with the world (though both describe both).

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