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BRAIDING SWEET GRASS

Author: Robin Wall Kimmerer
SKU: 9780141991955

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‘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, LoveAs 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.

 

Format: Paperback / softback 400 pages

Classifications: Environmentalist thought & ideology, Applied ecology

ISBN : 9780141991955

Published : 23 Apr 2020

Author : Robin Wall Kimmerer

Size : 128 x 197 x 26 (mm)

Weight : N/A

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