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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
48 reviews
katte's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Animal death
Minor: Fire/Fire injury
rorikae's review against another edition
5.0
I honestly find this book a little bit hard to write about because it just needs to be read. I think everyone could benefit from reading this book and looking at the ways that they can bring these teachings into their daily lives.
I had so many takeaways and tabbed this book so that I could come back again and again to pieces that struck me. Three pieces that have stuck with me the most are one, looking to the gifts that nature has given to us and finding the ways that we can give thanks and live in reciprocity for those gifts. Second, that all flourishing is mutual. And third, that writing is one gift that humanity can give back to the world. As someone who feels a call to write, reading about how Kimmerer approaches writing was refreshing and inspiring.
This is one of my favorite books that I have read all year. It perfectly mixes heartfelt teachings with a realistic look at how we are treating the environment. I will be taking these teachings into my daily life and look forward to returning to this book again and again.
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Colonisation, Death, Genocide, Grief, and Violence
daisydoolie's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Colonisation, Animal death, Genocide, and Forced institutionalization
Moderate: Death
fiveredhens's review against another edition
3.75
The market economy story has spread like wildfire, with uneven results for human well-being and devastation for the natural world. But it is just a story we have told ourselves and we are free to tell another, to reclaim the old one. One of these stories sustains the living systems on which we depend. One of these stories opens the way to living in gratitude and amazement at the richness and generosity of the
world. One of these stories asks us
to bestow our own gifts in kind, to
celebrate our kinship with the world. We can choose. If all the world is a commodity, how poor we grow. When all the world is a gift in
motion, how wealthy we become.
"I want to vote with my dollar," she says. I can make choices because
have the disposable income to choose "green" over less-expensive goods, and I hope that will drive the market in the right direction. In the
food deserts of the South Side there
is no such choice, and the dishonor in that inequity runs far deeper than the food supply.
something tender in them, and open, as if they are emerging from the embrace of arms they did not know were there. Through them I get to remember what it is to open to the world as gift, to be flooded with the knowledge that the earth will take care of you, everything you need right there.
Microbes in industrial waste can destroy mercury. Aren't these stories we should all know? Who is it who holds them? In long-ago times, it was the elders who carried them. In the twenty-first century, it is often scientists who first hear them. The stories of buffalo and salamanders belong to the land, but scientists are one of their translators and carry a large responsibility for conveying
their stories to the world. And yet scientists mostly convey these stories in a language that excludes readers. Conventions for efficiency and precision make scientific papers very difficult for the rest of the world, and if the truth be known, for us as well. This has serious consequences for public dialogue about the environment and therefore for real democracy, especially the democracy of all species. For what good is knowing, unless it is coupled with caring?
In return for the privilege of breath.
i think most ppl should read this book but i had some ?? moments
the chapter on language emphasized linguistic relativity almost to the point of linguistic determinism which seemed really out of place, especially given how often that theory has been used to dehumanize indigenous people in the americas specifically
i felt like i didn't get a good handle on her ideas around colonizers becoming indigenous to place. it seemed a little too open-ended for me there
also the beginning of the book listed sponsors or something and one of them was Wells Fargo ? idk what was goin on there
Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Colonisation, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexism, Suicide attempt, War, and Xenophobia
Minor: Car accident, Child death, Fatphobia, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Racism, Religious bigotry, and Vomit
skudiklier's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Genocide, Racism, and Animal death
Moderate: Grief, Violence, Xenophobia, and Death
Minor: Sexual content
umbellule's review against another edition
5.0
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.reading_between_the_trees's review against another edition
5.0
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.
Graphic: Genocide and Sexism
Moderate: Animal death, Genocide, Racial slurs, Death, and Racism
Minor: Grief
babayagaofficial's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Vomit
Moderate: Animal death, Cannibalism, Death, Genocide, Grief, Sexism, Religious bigotry, and Racism