Braiding Sweetgrass- Robin Wall Kimmerer

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.

This was a woman I met whilst living in the beautiful Glenorchy, she was a very special lady, a kaitiaki for the land, it makes so much sense that this is her book for this project, it’s beautiful.

I can’t speak more highly of any book i’ve read that talks about taking care of our land, this has endless amount of knowledge about indigineous practices.

To be continued