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

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Start date: October 1, 2015

Finish date: October 9, 2015

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Jul 25, 2023 Renata rated it it was amazing

Shelves: nonfiction, grownup

this is my summer of Reading Books That Everyone Said Were Great Five Years Ago. and guess what: it's great! It took me a long time to read it (not counting the 5+ years it took me to start reading it) because I wanted to really savor the language of it. The writing is so lovely and then the skillfulness of Kimmerer's science communication is so strong, like truly combining the botany with the indigenous storytelling and making this beautiful beautiful book. Really inspiring.

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Jul 14, 2022 Suzanne Hamilton rated it really liked it

I listened to this book; it was narrated by the author in a calm, yet urgent tone; conveying that her message was too important to minimize or dismiss. She weaves together her perceptions of the world and our place in it as a scientist and as a native woman whose traditions honor the natural world in a way the dominant (colonist) world doesn't. She moves between her personal story, native mythologies, and scientific insights, focusing on a specific plant or ecosystem. From time to time it's a bi ...more

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May 13, 2021 Heather rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Was every essay in this collection a five star essay? No. But taken as a whole, between the ideas presented and the gorgeous writing, the book deserves every bit of five stars.

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