Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants
Kimmerer, R W
Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants - London : Penguin Books, 2020 - x, 390p.
Text includes: Planting sweetgrass; Tending sweetgrass; Picking sweetgrass; Braiding sweetgrass; Burning sweetgrass.
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 two ways of knowledge together.
9780141991955
Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants - London : Penguin Books, 2020 - x, 390p.
Text includes: Planting sweetgrass; Tending sweetgrass; Picking sweetgrass; Braiding sweetgrass; Burning sweetgrass.
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 two ways of knowledge together.
9780141991955