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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
12 reviews
hailstorm3812's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
5.0
This book is so so good. I don't have the words to describe it. It is such a good blend of information and heart. She knows exactly when to pull from her degree, her heritage, and her lived experience. It is such a perspective shifter of a book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Genocide and Colonisation
Moderate: Cultural appropriation
Minor: Violence, Religious bigotry, War, and Sexism
leefox's review against another edition
informative
reflective
relaxing
sad
slow-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Colonisation
Minor: Murder, War, and Violence
dhiyanah's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
There's a profound heaviness we feel about our collective wounds and responsibilities in how the planet is changing, suffering, and asking for help during these times. I'm grateful this book doesn't shy away from that, giving language to the overwhelm we're navigating, tracing it back to our ruptured connection with land and the patterns upheld to keep us in constant states of struggle, survival, and forgetfulness.
By sharing her lived experiences in reclaiming, remembering, and honoring practices kept alive by her own and other indigenous lineages (US-based), the author invites us to reflect on our own capacities and efforts of being in right relationship with the living world. In this book, I found reflections of how my own struggles of unbelonging and loneliness are linked to a sense of feeling orphaned from land, from wider community. I found deep queries and burning desires within me - not having much framework for being local to anywhere - to embody a more reciprocal and grounded approach to the natural world, to this planet who still feeds and tends to us through all this chaos.
For this and so much more, I feel this is a crucial read to help situate and cultivate hope, courage, and determination within as we journey through these giant waves of grief and renewal with our Mother Earth.
By sharing her lived experiences in reclaiming, remembering, and honoring practices kept alive by her own and other indigenous lineages (US-based), the author invites us to reflect on our own capacities and efforts of being in right relationship with the living world. In this book, I found reflections of how my own struggles of unbelonging and loneliness are linked to a sense of feeling orphaned from land, from wider community. I found deep queries and burning desires within me - not having much framework for being local to anywhere - to embody a more reciprocal and grounded approach to the natural world, to this planet who still feeds and tends to us through all this chaos.
For this and so much more, I feel this is a crucial read to help situate and cultivate hope, courage, and determination within as we journey through these giant waves of grief and renewal with our Mother Earth.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Colonisation, Forced institutionalization, and Genocide
Moderate: Racism and Grief
Minor: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, and Violence
waybeyondblue's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief, Colonisation, and Death
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cultural appropriation, Violence, Religious bigotry, and Fire/Fire injury
kshertz's review against another edition
informative
slow-paced
3.75
I’m glad I switched to audiobook! It is sooo much information! I did learn a lot but it’s hard to stay engaged the whole time. It’s a completely different way of looking at the world from what I’m used to so that makes sense. I was most interested in her personal story. I think if you’re interested in native knowledge of nature and all that it can be used for, you’d love this book. I took away from this book that native people know everything about the world and if we would just listen, we could too.
Content Warnings
Minor: Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Violence, and Xenophobia
eve81's review against another edition
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Colonisation and Violence
Minor: Addiction
emily_koopmann's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
3.25
Content Warnings
Minor: War, Genocide, and Violence
random19379's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
sad
slow-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Classism, Colonisation, and Violence
gracecrandall's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death and Blood
Moderate: Colonisation, Forced institutionalization, War, and Violence
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.
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.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Colonisation, Death, Genocide, Grief, and Violence