03772cam a2200517 i 4500 829743464 MeVbMML 20230315101717.0 130618s2013 mnu b 000 0deng 2013012563 9781571313560 9781571313355 1571313354 (OCoLC)829743464 AJM E98.P5 K56 2013 305.597 23 Kimmerer, Robin Wall, author 13092 Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants / Robin Wall Kimmerer First edition Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2013 x, 390 pages ; 23 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Subtitle from dust jacket Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-388) Planting sweetgrass -- Tending sweetgrass -- Picking sweetgrass -- Braiding sweetgrass -- Burning sweetgrass -- Epilogue : returning the gift "An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer 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 this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer 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"-- Provided by publisher "As a leading researcher in the field of biology, Robin Wall Kimmerer understands the delicate state of our world. But as an active member of the Potawatomi nation, she senses and relates to the world through a way of knowing far older than any science. In Braiding Sweetgrass, she intertwines these two modes of awareness--the analytic and the emotional, the scientific and the cultural--to ultimately reveal a path toward healing the rift that grows between people and nature. The woven essays that construct this book bring people back into conversation with all that is green and growing; a universe that never stopped speaking to us, even when we forgot how to listen"-- Provided by publisher Kimmerer, Robin Wall 13092 Indian philosophy 13093 Ethnoecology 13094 Philosophy of nature 13095 Human ecology Philosophy 13096 Nature Effect of human beings on 13097 Human-plant relationships 13102 Botany Philosophy 13103 Potawatomi Indians Biography 13104 Potawatomi Indians Social life and customs 13105 Biographies. lcgft 5221 .b114396267 ddc BOOK 28705 28705 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ NF 2023-03-17 20.00 2 2 305.59 KIMM 64183 2024-02-02 2024-01-17 2023-03-15 BOOK 1