Braiding Sweetgrass

hardcover, 456 sidor

Publicerades 13 oktober 2020 av Milkweed Editions.

ISBN:: 978-1-57131-177-1
OCLC-nummer:: 1143651514

Updated with a new introduction from Robin Wall Kimmerer, the special edition of Braiding Sweetgrass, reissued in honor of the fortieth anniversary of Milkweed Editions, celebrates the book as an object of meaning that will last the ages. Beautifully bound in stamped linen cloth with a bookmark ribbon and a deckled edge, this edition features five brilliantly colored illustrations by artist Nate Christopherson. In increasingly dark times, we honor the experience that more than 350,000 readers in North America have cherished about the book--gentle, simple, tactile, beautiful, even sacred--and offer an edition that will inspire readers to gift it again and again, spreading the word about scientific knowledge, indigenous wisdom, and the teachings of plants.

As 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 …

Updated with a new introduction from Robin Wall Kimmerer, the special edition of Braiding Sweetgrass, reissued in honor of the fortieth anniversary of Milkweed Editions, celebrates the book as an object of meaning that will last the ages. Beautifully bound in stamped linen cloth with a bookmark ribbon and a deckled edge, this edition features five brilliantly colored illustrations by artist Nate Christopherson. In increasingly dark times, we honor the experience that more than 350,000 readers in North America have cherished about the book--gentle, simple, tactile, beautiful, even sacred--and offer an edition that will inspire readers to gift it again and again, spreading the word about scientific knowledge, indigenous wisdom, and the teachings of plants.

As 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 lenses of knowledge together to take us on "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).

Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as 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 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 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.

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raveller@outside.ofa.dog recenserade Braiding Sweetgrass av Robin Wall Kimmerer

A spiritual guide

5 stjärnor

If I had to choose one book to keep with me this would be it. I spent six years listening to the audio book because each chapter, each paragraph really, is transformational. I'll likely start the book over again on paper, and read the young adult version. It's a religious experience. It offers a new way to live that is so against the grain that you need to read and reread to keep shifting into this new mindset.

Every chapter is important but the last is so so relevant to today's fascist world.

What's amazing is that it's not framed as spiritual or self-help, although I can see that other reviewers felt the same way I do about it being a spiritually transformative experience. Kimmerer is a scientist, an indigenous scientist with a wide lens, and the book is chock full of scientific observations and surprising, beautiful facts.

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If I had to choose one book to keep with me this would be it. I spent six years listening to the audio book because each chapter, each paragraph really, is transformational. I'll likely start the book over again on paper, and read the young adult version. It's a religious experience. It offers a new way to live that is so against the grain that you need to read and reread to keep shifting into this new mindset.

Every chapter is important but the last is so so relevant to today's fascist world.

What's amazing is that it's not framed as spiritual or self-help, although I can see that other reviewers felt the same way I do about it being a spiritually transformative experience. Kimmerer is a scientist, an indigenous scientist with a wide lens, and the book is chock full of scientific observations and surprising, beautiful facts.

In a way this is about wandering in the woods like Mary Oliver. It's also a mythological text. It's also a reflection on what it means to be an indigenous academic, or to be indigenous at all. It's also a review of her academic and personal life's work. It's an exploration mainly of the U.S. natural world. It's delicious description. It's an environmentalist's handbook.

It's also incredibly soothing to listen too. I kept coming back to listen to the next chapter when I wanted something that felt so true I could melt into the words.

laundry0099@bookwyrm.social recenserade Braiding Sweetgrass av Robin Wall Kimmerer

Review of 'Braiding Sweetgrass' on 'Storygraph'

5 stjärnor

This book has permanently changed the way I think about the world. It made me so overwhelmed with emotions that at times I had to set down my phone and cry for a few minutes. But it is beautiful. It is poignant and important and it has given me renewed hope for a world that is increasingly terrifying.