Celebrate Earth Day with us this April as we discuss the deeply moving and thought-provoking book Braiding Sweet grass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. \;This beautiful book invites us to reflect on our relationship with the natural world.
\nBook Description
\nAs a botanist and professor of plant ecology\ , Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman\, she learned fro m elders\, family\, and history that the Potawatomi\, as well as a majorit y of other cultures indigenous to this land\, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In \;Braiding \;Sweetgrass\, Kimmerer b rings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans as "the younger brothers of creation." As she explores these themes she circles toward a central argument: the awakening of a wider ecologica l consciousness requires the acknowledgement and celebration of our recipr ocal relationship with the world. Once we begin to listen for the language s of other beings\, we can begin to understand the innumerable life-giving gifts the world provides us and learn to offer our thanks\, our care\, an d our own gifts in return.
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