A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Bestseller A Los
Angeles Times Bestseller Named a "Best Essay Collection of the
Decade" by Literary Hub A Book Riot "Favorite Summer Read of 2020"
A Food Tank Fall 2020 Reading Recommendation 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 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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