Summary of Braiding Sweetgrass

di SellWave Audio (Autore)

SellWave Audio, 2025

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. In Braiding Sweetgrass, botanist and plant ecologist Robin Wall Kimmerer weaves together two powerful ways of knowing—the analytical lens of Western science and the wisdom of her Potawatomi heritage. From her elders and family, she learned to see plants and animals as our oldest teachers, while her training as a scientist taught her to ask questions of nature with precision and curiosity. By combining these perspectives, she offers a vision of what it means to view humans as the “younger brothers of creation.” Through lyrical storytelling and ecological insight, Braiding Sweetgrass reveals that awakening to a deeper ecological consciousness requires recognizing and honoring our reciprocal relationship with the Earth. Kimmerer argues that once we begin listening to the languages of other beings—whether the whisper of plants, the patterns of animals, or the flow of water—we open ourselves to understanding the countless life-giving gifts the natural world provides. More than a book of science, Braiding Sweetgrass is an invitation to gratitude, care, and responsibility. It encourages us to move beyond seeing the Earth only as a resource and instead as a community we are called to respect and give back to. In celebrating this reciprocity, Kimmerer shows how we can heal our relationship with the land, and in doing so, heal ourselves.

• Autore: SellWave Audio
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 01:47:58
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: SellWave Audio
• EAN: 9798318171116

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