Braiding Sweetgrass

Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

De: Robin Wall Kimmerer

Narrado por: Robin Wall Kimmerer

As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers.

In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans as "the younger brothers of creation". As she explores these themes, she circles toward a central argument: The awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgement and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the world. Once we begin to listen for the languages of other beings, we can begin to understand the innumerable life-giving gifts the world provides us and learn to offer our thanks, our care, and our own gifts in return.

©2013 Robin Wall Kimmerer (P)2016 Tantor

Read this book!

More than just plants. This book is something we as a species should be proud of our gift of language. This book, I hope it makes it into the hands of people of all different types. It is so beautiful, scientific and community inspired.

An inspiration for all

With each chapter my Spirit was nurtured with the possibilities of our deepened commitments to and for all of life relations. The voices of my ancestors echoed within me to remember all that still lives within me.

Powerful, moving and soul searching.

The book is beautiful. The teachings and ideas found within it are so powerful and important in this time of unease. The melding of scientific data with the spiritual is seamless and stimulating. We can all learn much from what is contained here. The logic is undeniable. Everyone should read this book and wake up to the importance and connectedness of all.

Beautiful Book

Every chapter pulls you in, guiding you to the meaning of reciprocity. Poetic, and powerful.

An inspiration, a comfort, a hope

This book filled my heart with joy and wonder at the gifts of the natural world.
Filled my eyes with tears at mourning for what has been lost and taken from us all.
And critically, filled my mind with thoughts of ways forward; methods and practices to shape a world of hope and healing for the earth, for its creatures, and for humanity which has so desperately lost its way.
This book is a memory, long forgotten, of who we are. Read it, listen, and remember.