Loved itI actually thought this was a beautiful book and I listened to about half of it. And oddly, and you can tell me if I'm wrong, just wasn't compelled to keep going with it.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these lenses of knowledge together to show that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings are we capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learning to give our own gifts in return.
- ISBN:
- 9780141991955
- Length:
- 400 pages
Genres: biography
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Loved itI had read about in like Braiding Sweetgrass, for example, by Robin Wall Kimmerer, which is one of the best books of all time.
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Loved itI also read Braiding Sweetgrass, which I think about constantly... It's a very meditative non-fiction.
Loved itI absolutely loved this. So the author narrates it herself, and firstly I just want to say she has the best voice ever.