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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.
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. In
increasingly dark times, we honor the experience that more than 350,000
readers in North America have cherished about the book―gentle, simple,
tactile, beautiful, even sacred―and offer an edition that will inspire
readers to gift it again and again, spreading the word about scientific
knowledge, indigenous wisdom, and the teachings of plants.
As 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
teachers. 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).
Drawing on her life as an
indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living
beings―asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders,
algae, and sweetgrass―offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've
forgotten how to hear their voices. In reflections that range from the
creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing
today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of
ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of
our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only
when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of
understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own
gifts in return.
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