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Braiding Sweetgrass

by Robin Wall Kimmerer · 2013

Popular Science · ranked #4 in category

A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation weaves together Indigenous plant knowledge, scientific botany and memoir to argue that plants are not passive objects but beings with gifts to offer, and that reciprocity — not extraction — is the proper relationship between humans and the living world. One of the most-read works of nature writing in recent years.

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Category
Popular Science
First published
2013 · 2010s
Author
Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Essential Read

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