I find this incredibly off-putting, coming from someone who leads a life that is far from environmentally sustainable.

Then I would find myself thinking about something the author said, decide to give the book another try, read a couple of essays, etc. My favorite part was the chapter on linguistics and how the difference in seeing the world plays out in language. It is the way she captures beauty that I love the most—the images of giant cedars and wild strawberries, a forest in the rain and a meadow of fragrant sweetgrass will stay with you long after you read the last page. It definitely makes me more aware of my impact on the earth and to consider what I give and take from my environment. In such a culture, Everyone knows that gifts will follow the circle of reciprocity and flow back to you again.

But in this book you learn about how heartbreak and love can teach you just as well as any double blind study.

I give detailed breakdowns of nonfiction, but this is a book of stories for you to experience… I dream of a world guided by a lens of stories rooted in the revelations of science and framed with an indigenous worldview—­stories in which matter and spirit are both given voice. No declarations of political loyalty are required, just a response to a repeated question: "Can we agree to be grateful for all that is given? Beautifully bound with a new cover featuring an engraving by Tony Drehfal, this edition includes a bookmark ribbon, a deckled edge, and five brilliantly colored illustrations by artist Nate Christopherson; this is a book you are going to want to gift - either to yourself or those you love. Updated with a new introduction from Robin Wall Kimmerer, the special edition of Braiding Sweetgrass , reissued in honor of the fortieth anniversary of Milkweed Editions, celebrates the book as an object of meaning that will last the ages.

She approaches wild leeks and asks permission to take some for the dinner she wants to cook for her daughters. The descriptions of Native American myths and traditions as well as the beauty of nature are beautiful.

She uses the example of Plantain, an English plant that came over with the colonists, and soon was found all over the northeast. Kimmerer offers us a way to look back to our ancestral kinship with “other” lives and a way forward to respect and intimacy with our brother species. Because I do agree with her general point in this book: that our society has strayed far, far away from the relationship we should have with the natural world.In Braiding Sweetgrass , Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise" (Elizabeth Gilbert). Updated with a new introduction from Robin Wall Kimmerer, the special edition ofBraiding Sweetgrass, reissued in honor of the fortieth anniversary of Milkweed Editions,.