Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants where progress clashes with tradition

where progress clashes with tradition

" --Rebecca Makkai

genre-blurring work of storytelling magic" (The Washington Post) from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier

from 1940 to 2010

The rules appear obvious at first

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants where progress clashes with traditionA New York Times bestseller A Washington Post bestseller A Los Angeles Times bestseller Named a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary Hub A Book Riot "Favorite Summer Read of 2020" A Food Tank Fall 2020 Reading RecommendationAs a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest