Reviews tagging 'Death'

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

37 reviews

maddox22's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Alcoholism and Animal cruelty

elyssajoh's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cursing, Death, Grief, and Colonisation

betweentheshelves's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

There is so much encompassed in this book, history, science, plants, social commentary. Each chapter brings a new perspective that makes you think about your place in the world and the way that you interact with nature. There are so many little jewels planted throughout this book, and the writing flows so easily and naturally. It may be about plant science at its core, but it's also about so much more.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Genocide, and Racism

skudiklier's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

I'm so glad I read this book. It has changed the way I see the world, and I think everyone should read it. I'm not really a science person, so I'll admit that some parts of this felt a little slow to me, but I don't at all regret reading it. And for the most part, it was more engaging than I would have thought.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Genocide, and Racism

Moderate: Death, Violence, Xenophobia, and Grief

Minor: Sexual content

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

reading_between_the_trees's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This should be required reading, specifically for settlers, but also for anyone feeling extremely rooted in science and thinking that it is the solution to everything. I read this in my Environmental Ethics class, and it presents such a beautiful outline of an ethic based on gratitude and ecological consciousness.

Kimmerer writes beautifully about plants and the natural world, and puts indigenous knowledge into conversation with western science and capitalism while seriously critiquing both of the latter. After reading this I have a much better understanding of both the knowledge that was thriving before colonization and is still persevering today, as well as the ways that settler culture has systemically suppressed it and the people that create and propagate it. This book is both a call to action and a re-grounding in the ways that people used to connect with the world and see their place within it rather than in opposition to it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide and Sexism

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Genocide, Racial slurs, and Racism

Minor: Grief

babayagaofficial's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Genocide, Racism, Sexism, Grief, Cannibalism, and Religious bigotry