Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
About this book
Weaving together Indigenous Potawatomi teachings and Western botany, Robin Wall Kimmerer shows how plants have much to teach us about reciprocity, gratitude, and what it means to be in right relationship with the living world. A luminous work at the intersection of science and ceremony.
Key themes
- The grammar of animacy: why calling a living being 'it' is a form of violence
- Reciprocity as an ecological and ethical principle — not charity
- The Honorable Harvest: ask permission, take only what you need, give back
- Ecological grief and the love that underlies it
- Science and ceremony as complementary ways of knowing
About the author
Robin Wall Kimmerer, PhD is a botanist, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the founding director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.
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