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

challenging informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

"Your strange hunger for ease should not be a death sentence for the rest of Creation."

I took too long to read this book....probably because a part of me wanted to read it when I lived closer to nature in Panamá. 

And, what a fascinating one it was. 

Each chapter is a poetically written vignette...part science textbook, part indigenous wisdom, part love story between the author and the planet, and part tragedy. 

It solidified my feeling that my soul is deeply indigenous...left with only faint memories of a communal, humble, grateful life that was deeply connected to nature. 

I'm left feeling more sad about the state of our Mother Earth, probably because the people who read this book already understand the direness of the situation and the ones who need to read it the most probably won't. I think we're doomed to destroy her.
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