Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants Author: Visit Amazon's Robin Wall Kimmerer Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1571313567 | Format: PDF
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants Description
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With deep compassion and graceful prose, botanist and professor of plant ecology Kimmerer (Gathering Moss) encourages readers to consider the ways that our lives and language weave through the natural world. A mesmerizing storyteller, she shares legends from her Potawatomi ancestors to illustrate the culture of gratitude in which we all should live. In such a culture, Everyone knows that gifts will follow the circle of reciprocity and flow back to you again... The grass in the ring is trodden down in a path from gratitude to reciprocity. We dance in a circle, not in a line. Kimmerer recalls the ways that pecans became a symbol of abundance for her ancestors: Feeding guests around the big table recalls the trees' welcome to our ancestors when they were lonesome and tired and so far from home. She reminds readers that we are showered every day with gifts, but they are not meant for us to keep... Our work and our joy is to pass along the gift and to trust that what we put into the universe will always come back. (Oct.)
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"Robin Wall Kimmerer is writer of rare grace. She writes about the natural world from a place of such abundant passion that one can never quite see the world the same way after having seen it through Kimmerer's eyes. She is a great teacher, and her words are a hymn of love to the world." — Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love and The Signature of All Things
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- Paperback: 408 pages
- Publisher: Milkweed Editions (September 9, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1571313567
- ISBN-13: 978-1571313560
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