9781571311771-1571311777-Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

ISBN-13: 9781571311771
ISBN-10: 1571311777
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Format: Hardcover 456 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781571311771
ISBN-10: 1571311777
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Format: Hardcover 456 pages

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (ISBN-13: 9781571311771 and ISBN-10: 1571311777), written by authors Robin Wall Kimmerer, was published by Milkweed Editions in 2020. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other Botany (Biological Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Botany books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $7.82.

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A New York Times Bestseller
A Washington Post Bestseller
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller
Named a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary Hub
A Book Riot "Favorite Summer Read of 2020"
A Food Tank Fall 2020 Reading Recommendation
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 with a new cover featuring an engraving by Tony Drehfal, this edition includes a bookmark ribbon and 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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