Braiding Sweetgrass

I love nature and I love books.If you do too, you might love this book. Told with a almost mystical reverence for the natural world, but with the voice of a scientifically trained botanist it weaves a story that while tragic at times is hopeful and uplifting. I feel like I struggled along with the author as she told her story and came out a better person in the end because of it. The audiobook is narrated by the author and that adds an extra dimension to the book and makes it more enjoyable, something rare for author narrated audiobooks.

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potentially my favorite work of nonfiction to date. a work that i constantly come back to and revisit, one of the best things I read in college

“Imagine raising children in a culture in which gratitude is the first priority.” This is a sublimely beautiful work, an important one. A precious gift. Kimmerer writes of gifts and responsibilities, scarcity and abundance, greed and gratefulness. Of awareness. She weaves together scientific and native knowledge gracefully and without woo; building a path for our future based on respect and humility.

If you care about our future, you need to read this. Then pass it on.