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Geflochtenes Süßgras. Die Weisheit der Pflanzen by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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5.0

This book made me deeply reflect on my own life and the ways that I interact with nature. I hope it changed me for the better. I also was pleasantly surprised to see how narrative-based this book was. It made the read faster and more interesting. And Kimmerer’s language is so beautiful, while maintaining a simplicity that kept everything easy to understand. Especially to hear it in her own voice, I felt like I was floating along these words.

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

5.0

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adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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I read this book very slowly, over a long period of time, because the ideas within it were so novel and engaging that I needed to pause and think. If you are interested in ecology or concerned about climate change, I urge you to read this book. It is an exploration of culture, relationship to land, botany, history, and mythology. I also highly recommend the audio book, as it is narrated by the author and hearing her voice adds to the experience.

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challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

There's a profound heaviness we feel about our collective wounds and responsibilities in how the planet is changing, suffering, and asking for help during these times. I'm grateful this book doesn't shy away from that, giving language to the overwhelm we're navigating, tracing it back to our ruptured connection with land and the patterns upheld to keep us in constant states of struggle, survival, and forgetfulness.

By sharing her lived experiences in reclaiming, remembering, and honoring practices kept alive by her own and other indigenous lineages (US-based), the author invites us to reflect on our own capacities and efforts of being in right relationship with the living world. In this book, I found reflections of how my own struggles of unbelonging and loneliness are linked to a sense of feeling orphaned from land, from wider community. I found deep queries and burning desires within me - not having much framework for being local to anywhere - to embody a more reciprocal and grounded approach to the natural world, to this planet who still feeds and tends to us through all this chaos.

For this and so much more, I feel this is a crucial read to help situate and cultivate hope, courage, and determination within as we journey through these giant waves of grief and renewal with our Mother Earth.

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challenging hopeful informative inspiring slow-paced

5.0

A beautifully written piece, I savored every minute and looked forward to opening it.

Part nature. Part philosophy. It’s been the subject of my conversations for the month I read it and I’ve already seen my perspective and actions shift from reading it.

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