Braiding sweetgrass

by Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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Title Statements

Full title :Braiding sweetgrass / Robin Wall Kimmerer.

Summary

As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, the author has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to the Americas, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In this book, she brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans as "the younger brothers of creation." As she explores these themes, she circles toward a central argument: the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgement and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the world. Once we begin to listen for the languages of other beings, we can begin to understand the innumerable life-giving gifts the world provides us and learn to offer our thanks, our care, and our own gifts in return. -- Description from back cover.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2013
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Milkweed Editions
Place of Publication:Minneapolis, Minnesota
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2013

The Physical Object

Description:x, 390 pages ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1571313354, 9781571313355, 1571313567, 9781571313560
oclc:ocn829743464
LC Classification:E98.P5
Dewey Decimal:305.897

Subjects

Autobiographies Autobiography Biographies Botanik Botanique Botany Botany -- Philosophy Écologie humaine -- Philosophie Ethnoécologie Ethnoecology Homme -- Influence sur la nature Human ecology -- Philosophy Human-plant relationships Indian philosophy Indian philosophy -- North America Indians of North America Indians, North American Indiens d'Amérique -- Amérique du Nord Indigenes Volk Kimmerer, Robin Wall