Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants / Robin Wall Kimmerer.
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TextPublisher: [London] : Penguin Books, 2020Copyright date: ©2013Description: x, 390 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780141991955 (paperback)Other title: Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plantsSubject(s): Kimmerer, Robin Wall | Kimmerer, Robin Wall | Indigenous peoples -- Ecology | Ethnoecology | Ethnoecology | Indian philosophy | Philosophy of nature | Human ecology -- Philosophy | Nature -- Effect of human beings on | Human-plant relationships | Botany -- Philosophy | Potawatomi Indians -- Social life and customs | Human ecology -- Philosophy | Human-plant relationships | Indian philosophy | Nature -- Effect of human beings on | Philosophy of nature | Potawatomi Indians -- Social life and customsDDC classification: 305.897 Summary: 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 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.
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first published by Milkweed Editions 2013.
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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 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.
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