Braiding Sweetgrass 

Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer was trained to ask questions about nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Potawatomi Citizen Nation, I embrace the idea that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings together these perspectives of knowledge to demonstrate that the awakening of a broader ecological consciousness requires recognizing and celebrating our mutual relationship with the rest of the living world. Only when we can hear

the languages ​​of other beings that we are able to understand the abundance of the earth and learn to offer our gifts in return.