Braiding Sweetgrass
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Plants as teachers. Science as reciprocity.
you've started to feel that the way we talk about nature — as resource, as backdrop, as something separate from us — is part of the problem
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Kimmerer is a Potawatomi botanist who writes about plants the way her ancestors did — as beings with agency, intelligence, and gifts to offer. This is not a nature book. It is a dispatch from inside an Indigenous scientific tradition that Western botany spent two centuries trying to erase. She writes about asters and goldenrod, about the honorable harvest, about what it means to learn from a place rather than extract from it. The most quietly revolutionary book about the relationship between humans and the natural world written in the last twenty years.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- North America
- Voice
- Written by a North America author
- Themes
- Creative RebellionBuilders & HealersWitness
