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La meravigliosa trama del tutto: Saggezza indigena, conoscenza scientifica e gli insegnamenti delle piante by Robin Wall Kimmerer
59 reviews
bai13ya's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Colonisation
Minor: Animal death and Racism
lostgwennel's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Animal death, Racism, and Colonisation
Minor: Death and Suicide
astrangewind's review against another edition
5.0
Kimmerer weaves together stories and science effortlessly, leading the reader from her first foray into botanical sciences all the way through the current climate crisis. Even so, the book's message is ultimately one of hope and healing, of restoring our individual and collective relationships to the land.
So much of this book reaches deep inside of me and pulls at my emotions. Longing for a childhood spent stooped in the strawberry patch, eating the fruit in spring; the need to give gifts and connect with others; pain for the pollution of Lake Onondaga and the blatant disregard for the earth; hope for restoration; the urge to restore, to dig my fingers deep into the dry, cracked soil and turning it to rich, black humus.
There are many writers who aim to write about spirituality and nature, but these writers tend to place humans at the helm of life on earth, and plants as objects to be used, a mishmash of American colonialism and haphazard tenets cherry-picked from (usually) Hinduism. But Kimmerer shows us instead the Indigenous perspective: that there is personhood in all things, that we must engage in reciprocity with the land, that we have a moral duty to repair what has been broken. She urges the reader: don't despair - feel your hands itching to dig, to seed, to carry a salamander safely across the road in the palms of your hands.
Kimmerer is a scientist, but she casts aside the scientific worldview we tend to have in America, that everything needs rigorous testing, that there's no place for the spiritual, or for love. But I think any botanist or nature scientist or even anyone who has tasted a fresh wild strawberry can tell you that love is not only necessary but unavoidable.
Graphic: Genocide and Colonisation
Moderate: Animal death, Death, and War
Minor: Xenophobia
matcha_cat's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Animal death, Death, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation
Minor: Child abuse, Blood, Cannibalism, and Religious bigotry
the_vegan_bookworm's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Animal death, Genocide, and Colonisation
apersonfromflorida's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Animal death, Genocide, and Colonisation
Moderate: Death, Racism, and Grief
Minor: Suicide, Cannibalism, and War
rosie_valadez's review against another edition
Graphic: Animal death and Genocide
Moderate: Death, Racism, and Grief
Minor: Suicide and War
savouris18's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Animal death
Minor: Genocide and War
bubblybelle's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Forced institutionalization
Moderate: Animal death, Genocide, and War
takarakei's review against another edition
4.5
My one qualm (and this could be indicative of this being published a decade ago) is I think Wall Kimmerer shies away a bit from giving any real solutions besides to become "closer to nature" which reads a bit naive considering where we are as a world right now. Unfortunately we are just so far past the way indigenous people used to live that I struggle to see a path that leads anywhere near back there.
Graphic: Colonisation
Moderate: Animal death, Death, Genocide, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Grief, and War
Minor: Cannibalism