![]() ![]() ![]() "Robin Wall Kimmerer is writer of rare grace. She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling collection of essays Br aiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants as well as Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. The woven essays that construct this book bring people back into conversation with all that is green and growing a universe that never stopped speaking to us, even when we forgot how to listen". In Braiding Sweetgrass, she intertwines these two modes of awareness-the analytic and the emotional, the scientific and the cultural-to ultimately reveal a path toward healing the rift that grows between people and nature. But as an active member of the Potawatomi nation, she senses and relates to the world through a way of knowing far older than any science. "As a leading researcher in the field of biology, Robin Wall Kimmerer understands the delicate state of our world. ![]()
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