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I finally got to this after so many recommendations! A beautifully written book about interweaving scientific and indigenous wisdom to restore our relationship with the earth, and all the beings that occupy it. Darby
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of Nature pickwith the tools of Science pick pick. 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. 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.