Name: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
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Author: Robin Wall Kimmerer
ISBN: 9781571313560

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Publisher

Milkweed Editions

Year

2014

Language

English

Pages

408

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.3 x 13.7 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.52 kg.

ISBN13

9781571313560

Edition No.

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

A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Bestseller Named a Best Essay Collection of the Decade by Literary Hub 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.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Es madre, científica, profesora condecorada y miembro inscrito de la Nación Ciudadana Potawatomi. Su primer libro, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, recibió la medalla John Burroughs y otros escritos han aparecido en Orion, Whole Terrain y numerosas revistas científicas. En 2022, Monique Gray Smith adaptó Braiding Sweetgrass para adultos jóvenes. Robin realiza numerosas giras. En 2015 se dirigió a la asamblea general de las Naciones Unidas sobre el tema "Sanar nuestra relación con la naturaleza". Tiene una licenciatura en Botánica de SUNY ESF, una maestría y un doctorado en Botánica de la Universidad de Wisconsin y es autora de numerosos artículos científicos. Vive en una antigua granja en el norte del estado de Nueva York y cuida jardines tanto cultivados como silvestres.

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