'Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants' is a 🏷️#book.

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).

Recommended to us by 📝Michael Jager.

Reflections

"Braiding Sweetgrass is a very important book in that it elegantly presents world views from both a pre-colonial and a scientific mindset. These views are, unfortunately, at odds and the author fused them beautifully. I’ve shared posts on Words Before All Else and Puhpowe in 📝r/HealMovement that come directly from that book. The lessons in that book combined with my few experiences conspired for a deep resonant transformation in me." ~ 📝Will Cady

Contexts

• on our 🏷️#reading-list after a recommendation from 🏷️#michael-jager
• 🏷️#will-cady (See: 📝Will Cady)