Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

14 reviews

waybeyondblue's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Colonisation, and Death

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cultural appropriation, Violence, Religious bigotry, and Fire/Fire injury

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation and Racism

Moderate: Xenophobia, Death, War, Grief, Religious bigotry, Animal death, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Sexism, Suicide, Vomit, Alcohol, Car accident, Cannibalism, Excrement, Abandonment, Child death, Animal cruelty, Pregnancy, Cultural appropriation, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Climate change, habitat destruction, pollution.

nodogsonthemoon's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Colonisation, Animal death, Grief, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Genocide

Minor: Child death, Cannibalism, Car accident, Hate crime, Suicide, and War

katte's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

5.0

Non-fiction. What an incredible, spiritual journey this book was. I read it via audiobook, which was narrated by the author herself. Robin Wall Kimmerer shares so much of her scientific knowledge and her cultural teachings that I found it impossible to not want to do something in return (especially given the subject of her book!) My takeaway will be figuring out the reciprocity I can partake in towards her for these generous teachings, and the rest of the world, moving forward. Her writing is absolutely beautiful but so thought provoking and deep I could finish a session of a chapter or two and have to mull it over for weeks. It is a little overwhelming to think that she published this book in 2013 - almost ten years ago now - and was talking about approaching (or perhaps surpassing) the climate change tipping point even then. This book has changed me in a way I can’t yet describe, but I know it is for the better. Absolutely recommend the audiobook for accurate pronunciations of the Indigenous languages she writes about. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Fire/Fire injury