A graceful, illuminating work of Native American natural history.
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Braiding Sweetgrass- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants as well as Gathering Moss- A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. Kimmerer is a 2022 MacArthur Fellow. She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.
Her words were an awakening
*Guardian*
It is beautiful and unusual, the rare book that might cause you to
forever see the world a little differently
*Observer*
Remarkable, wise and potentially paradigm-shifting
*Guardian*
Braiding Sweetgrass is the book we all need right now. It is a
vision of a new world, of reciprocity, gratitude and seeing the
living world for what it is: an abundance of gifts. Kimmerer is
uniquely placed to braid indigenous knowledge with scientific
learnings and she does it with kindness, ingenuity and a poet's
prose. It is truly the text for our times.
*author of Losing Eden*
An extraordinary book, showing how the factual, objective approach
of science can be enriched by the ancient knowledge of the
indigenous people. It is the way she captures beauty that I love
the most - the images of giant cedars and wild strawberries, a
forest in the rain and a meadow of fragrant sweetgrass will stay
with you long after you read the last page
*Jane Goodall*
One of the most beautiful books I've ever read.
*Daily Herald*
I give daily thanks for Robin Wall Kimmerer for being a font of
endless knowledge, both mental and spiritual.
*The New York Times*
Reading this book was like looking at the world afresh. Radical,
hopeful, honest and wise, Robin Wall Kimmerer has woven us a
precious heartsong for difficult times
*Helen Jukes*
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*
Robin Wall Kimmerer opens a sense of wonder and humility for the
intelligence in all kinds of life we are used to naming and
imagining as inanimate.
*Krista Tippett*
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