(30)Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

 

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 lenses of knowledge together to show 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 are we capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learning to give our own gifts in return.

Braiding Sweetgrass is not a book I would have usually picked up on my own. It was the April book club selection, and I ended up loving it. Something about her writing drew me in. The concept of reciprocity spoke to me, not to mention the Thanksgiving Address. 

I was inspired to make this. 

This book is for anybody interested in being self-reliant or understanding sustainability on this planet.  Don't be intimidated by this book; you won't regret reading it. I promise! 

Details: 

• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Pages: 408
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Publication Date: 8/11/2015
• Buy it Here!