Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

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

8 reviews

purplepenning's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Forced institutionalization, Racism, Religious bigotry, and Sexism

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

waybeyondblue's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Colonisation, and Death

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cultural appropriation, Violence, Religious bigotry, and Fire/Fire injury

kaimetcalfe's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Grief, Animal death, and Colonisation

Moderate: Chronic illness, Alcoholism, Forced institutionalization, Animal cruelty, Death, Blood, and Colonisation

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation and Racism

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

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

Climate change, habitat destruction, pollution.

eagoldberg's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

rorikae's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

'Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants' is the perfect mix of nature writing, indigenous teachings, and thoughts on how we can live a gratitude and reciprocity based life. Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrates her care for the natural world through her detailed and evocative explorations of nature as she ties personal stories and moments to larger understandings of the world and humanity's place with nature. 
I honestly find this book a little bit hard to write about because it just needs to be read. I think everyone could benefit from reading this book and looking at the ways that they can bring these teachings into their daily lives. 
I had so many takeaways and tabbed this book so that I could come back again and again to pieces that struck me. Three pieces that have stuck with me the most are one, looking to the gifts that nature has given to us and finding the ways that we can give thanks and live in reciprocity for those gifts. Second, that all flourishing is mutual. And third, that writing is one gift that humanity can give back to the world. As someone who feels a call to write, reading about how Kimmerer approaches writing was refreshing and inspiring. 
This is one of my favorite books that I have read all year. It perfectly mixes heartfelt teachings with a realistic look at how we are treating the environment. I will be taking these teachings into my daily life and look forward to returning to this book again and again. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Colonisation, Death, Genocide, Grief, and Violence

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

Minor: Alcoholism and Animal cruelty

westfacingwindow's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This was a gift. Such an honour to hold something so beautiful in my hands. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Colonisation, Grief, and Murder