Braiding Sweetgrass

A New York Times Bestseller

A Washington Post Bestseller

Named a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary Hub

As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers.

In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans as "the younger brothers of creation". As she explores these themes, she circles toward a central argument: The awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgement and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the world. Once we begin to listen for the languages of other beings, we can begin to understand the innumerable life-giving gifts the world provides us and learn to offer our thanks, our care, and our own gifts in return.

"I give daily thanks for Robin Wall Kimmerer for being a font of endless knowledge, both mental and spiritual." —Richard Powers, New York Times

• ISBN-13: 978-1-571313-56-0
• Genre: Nature Writing & Essays
• Format: Paperback
• Trim: 5.4" x 8.4"
• Page count: 408 pages
• Published by Milkweed Editions in 2015
• Written by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Audience: Adult