Reviews tagging 'War'

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

21 reviews

apersonfromflorida's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Genocide, and Colonisation

Moderate: Death, Racism, and Grief

Minor: Suicide, Cannibalism, and War

rosie_valadez's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Genocide

Moderate: Death, Racism, and Grief

Minor: Suicide and War

savouris18's review against another edition

challenging inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Genocide and War

bubblybelle's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

this book spoke to my soul in a way very few things have. truly phenomenal. could not recommend enough. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Animal death, Genocide, and War

vereisnthere's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Colonisation

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Xenophobia, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Minor: Blood, Excrement, Alcohol, and Deportation

takarakei's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

I really enjoyed the combination of memoir style writing infused with nature writing providing lots of interesting info. The writing is beautifully descriptive and moving. As someone who grew up in the area (outside Syracuse) she writes about a lot, there was a nostalgic factor for me as well.

My one qualm (and this could be indicative of this being published a decade ago) is I think Wall Kimmerer shies away a bit from giving any real solutions besides to become "closer to nature" which reads a bit naive considering where we are as a world right now. Unfortunately we are just so far past the way indigenous people used to live that I struggle to see a path that leads anywhere near back there.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Genocide, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Grief, and War

Minor: Cannibalism

danajoy's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective sad

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation

Moderate: Kidnapping, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Minor: Murder

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Genocide, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Kidnapping, Car accident, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

residential schools, trail of death, carlisle, pollution.

rexpostfacto's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.75

An informative and thought-provoking read. It got a little long for my taste, but overall very enjoyable and stimulating. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, and Colonisation

Minor: Death, Hate crime, Forced institutionalization, Colonisation, and War

the_reading_wren's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

Genuinely a life-changing book. Inspires me and shows me new way for me to return to studying and practicing ecology. 

I highly recommend the audiobook because it is read wonderfully by the author. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Misogyny, Sexual content, Slavery, Vomit, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Alcohol