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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
65 reviews
umbellule's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
sad
medium-paced
5.0
I want to give this book to everyone I love. I am better for having read it, and I hope to reread it many times through my life. Thank you Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Content Warnings
Minor: Animal death, Kidnapping, Genocide, and Racism
Some content about the historical trauma of indigenous Americans, including residential schools. Some content about hunting, and about animal death due to environmental degradation, though this is written with great respect for animal life.daphnehumming's review against another edition
emotional
informative
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
This is maybe the most incredible book I have ever read in my life. The gift given to my by the other that I cherish most is the idea that the natural places I love might love me back. It is one of the most challenging books I have ever read, not in that it was difficult to read but because it challenged the foundation of how I have been taught to engage with the natural environment and other people. I am inspired; to garden, to give, and to reconsider how I view my place in the natural world. I also feel a great weight of responsibility.
I only take issue with one page of this book, where it is implied that improper connection with the Earth is what made someone commit suicide. I don’t really think that is for someone who is not that person to decide .
Overall I would highly recommend the book to any reader, and especially to any person who feels a connection with nature.
I only take issue with one page of this book, where it is
Overall I would highly recommend the book to any reader, and especially to any person who feels a connection with nature.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Genocide
Minor: Suicide
reading_between_the_trees's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
This should be required reading, specifically for settlers, but also for anyone feeling extremely rooted in science and thinking that it is the solution to everything. I read this in my Environmental Ethics class, and it presents such a beautiful outline of an ethic based on gratitude and ecological consciousness.
Kimmerer writes beautifully about plants and the natural world, and puts indigenous knowledge into conversation with western science and capitalism while seriously critiquing both of the latter. After reading this I have a much better understanding of both the knowledge that was thriving before colonization and is still persevering today, as well as the ways that settler culture has systemically suppressed it and the people that create and propagate it. This book is both a call to action and a re-grounding in the ways that people used to connect with the world and see their place within it rather than in opposition to it.
Kimmerer writes beautifully about plants and the natural world, and puts indigenous knowledge into conversation with western science and capitalism while seriously critiquing both of the latter. After reading this I have a much better understanding of both the knowledge that was thriving before colonization and is still persevering today, as well as the ways that settler culture has systemically suppressed it and the people that create and propagate it. This book is both a call to action and a re-grounding in the ways that people used to connect with the world and see their place within it rather than in opposition to it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Genocide and Sexism
Moderate: Animal death, Genocide, Racial slurs, Death, and Racism
Minor: Grief
emilyplun's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Genocide and Racism
Moderate: Sexism
babayagaofficial's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Vomit
Moderate: Animal death, Cannibalism, Death, Genocide, Grief, Sexism, Religious bigotry, and Racism
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