Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

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

14 reviews

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Colonisation

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Classism

Minor: Animal cruelty, Child death, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide, Excrement, Vomit, Cannibalism, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Climate change, habitat destruction, pollution.

nodogsonthemoon's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Genocide, Racism, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation

Minor: Child death, Hate crime, Suicide, Cannibalism, Car accident, and War

herk's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Racism, Suicide, and Death of parent

daphnehumming's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

This is maybe the most incredible book I have ever read in my life.

The gift given to my by the other that I cherish most is the idea that the natural places I love might love me back.

It is one of the most challenging books I have ever read, not in that it was difficult to read but because it challenged the foundation of how I have been taught to engage with the natural environment and other people. I am inspired; to garden, to give, and to reconsider how I view my place in the natural world. I also feel a great weight of responsibility. 
I only take issue with one page of this book, where it is

implied that improper connection with the Earth is what made someone commit suicide. I don’t really think that is for someone who is not that person to decide

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Overall I would highly recommend the book to any reader, and especially to any person who feels a connection with nature.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide

Minor: Suicide