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. So years later when her college adviser asked her why she wanted to study botany, she had a well. She often would stop her bike along the road to identify a new plant species. As a young girl, Robin Wall Kimmerer collected shoeboxes of seeds, and piles of pressed leaves. 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. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two ways of knowledge together.ĭrawing 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. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. 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, author of Eat, Pray, LoveĪs a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. 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.'A hymn of love to the world. 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. 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).ĭrawing 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. Our Campaign to Write the Shack’s Next Chapters TogetherĪs a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science.Yes! I want to be in the Leopold Family!.Aldo & Estella Leopold Writing Residency.Experience the Great Midwest Crane Fest.
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