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Called the work of "a mesmerizing storyteller with deep compassion
and memorable prose" ("Publishers Weekly") and the book that,
"anyone interested in natural history, botany, protecting nature,
or Native American culture will love," by "Library Journal,"
"Braiding Sweetgrass" is poised to be a classic of nature writing.
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer asks questions of nature with
the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation,
she embraces indigenous teachings that consider plants and animals
to be our oldest teachers. 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, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how
other living beings offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've
forgotten how to hear their voices.
'A hymn of love to the world ... 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, author of Eat, Pray, Love
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 ways of knowledge together. Drawing on her life as
an indigenous scientist, a mother, and 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 a
rich braid of 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 a wider
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.
'Kimmerer blends, with deep attentiveness and musicality, science
and personal insights to tell the overlooked story of the planet's
oldest plants' Guardian 'Bewitching ... a masterwork ... a
glittering read in its entirety' Maria Popova, Brainpickings Living
at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but
largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a
beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that
invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple
lives of mosses. In these interwoven essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer
leads general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of
how mosses live and how their lives are intertwined with the lives
of countless other beings. Kimmerer explains the biology of mosses
clearly and artfully, while at the same time reflecting on what
these fascinating organisms have to teach us. Drawing on her
experiences as a scientist, a mother, and a Native American,
Kimmerer explains the stories of mosses in scientific terms as well
as within the framework of indigenous ways of knowing. In her book,
the natural history and cultural relationships of mosses become a
powerful metaphor for ways of living in the world.
*2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Ecology &
Environment *2022 Nautilus Book Award Special Honors as Best of
Anthology *#1 on Bioneers List of 15 World-Changing Books to Gift
this Holiday Season! For readers of Braiding Sweetgrass and The
Overstory From The Center for Humans and Nature, a collection in
five volumes: essays, interviews, poetry, and stories of solidarity
that highlight the interdependence that exists between humans and
nonhuman beings We live in an astounding world of relations. We
share these ties that bind with our fellow humans-and we share
these relations with nonhuman beings as well. From the bacterium
swimming in your belly to the trees exhaling the breath you
breathe, this community of life is our kin-and, for many cultures
around the world, being human is based upon this extended sense of
kinship. Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations is a lively
series that explores our deep interconnections with the living
world. More than 70 contributors-including Robin Wall Kimmerer,
Richard Powers, David Abram, J. Drew Lanham, and Sharon
Blackie-invite readers into cosmologies, narratives, and everyday
interactions that embrace a more-than-human world as worthy of our
response and responsibility. These diverse voices render a wide
range of possibilities for becoming better kin. Contents: Planet:
What are the sources of our deepest evolutionary and planetary
connections, and of our profound longing for kinship? Place: To
what extent does crafting a deeper connection with the Earth's
bioregions reinvigorate a sense of kinship with the place-based
beings, systems, and communities that mutually shape one another?
Partners: How do relations between and among different species
foster a sense of responsibility and belonging in us? Persons:
Which experiences expand our understanding of being human in
relation to other-than-human beings? Practice: What are the
practical, everyday, and lifelong ways we become kin? From the
recognition of nonhumans as persons to the care of our kinfolk
through language and action, Kinship: Belonging in a World of
Relations is a guide and companion into the ways we can deepen our
care and respect for the family of plants, rivers, mountains,
animals, and others who live with us in this exuberant,
life-generating, planetary tangle of relations. Proceeds from sales
of Kinship benefit the nonprofit, non-partisan Center for Humans
and Nature, which partners with some of the brightest minds to
explore human responsibilities to each other and the
more-than-human world. The Center brings together philosophers,
ecologists, artists, political scientists, anthropologists, poets
and economists, among others, to think creatively about a resilient
future for the whole community of life.
Explorations of plant consciousness and human interactions with the
natural world. From apples to ayahuasca, coffee to kurrajong,
passionflower to peyote, plants are conscious beings. How they
interact with each other, with humanity and with the world at large
has long been studied by researchers, scientists and spiritual
teachers and seekers. The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal
Intelligence brings together works from all these disciplines and
more in a collection of essays that highlights what we know and
what we intuit about botanical life. The Mind of Plants, featuring
a foreword by Dennis McKenna, is a collection of short essays,
narratives and poetry on plants and their interaction with humans.
Contributors include Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of the New York
Times' best seller Braiding Sweetgrass, Jeremy Narby, John
Kinsella, Luis Eduardo Luna, Megan Kaminski and dozens more. The
book's editors, John C. Ryan, Patricia Vieira and Monica Gagliano -
each of whom also contributed works to the collection - weave
together essays, personal reflections and poems paired with
intricate illustrations by Jose Maria Pout. Recent scientific
research in the field of plant cognition highlights the capacity of
botanical life to discern between options and learn from prior
experiences or, in other words, to think. The Mind of Plants
includes texts that interpret this concept broadly. As Mckenna
writes in his foreword, "What the reader will find here, expressed
in poetry and prose, are stories that are infused with cherished
memories and inspired celebrations of unique relationships with a
group of organisms that are alien and unlike us in every way, yet
touch human lives in myriad ways."
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In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the
environmental movement - now in one complete set Over the past 75
years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living
planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the
world have raised their voices to defend it. Their words have
endured, becoming the classics that define the environmental
movement today. From art, literature, food and gardening, to
technology, economics, politics and ethics, each of these short
books deepens our sense of our place in nature; each is a seed from
which a bold activism can grow. Together, they show the richness of
environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner,
greener world.
"The Sacred Balance has a beautiful spirit."-E.O. Wilson With a new
foreword from Robin Wall Kimmerer, New York Times-bestselling
author of Braiding Sweetgrass-and an afterword from Bill
McKibben-this special 25th anniversary edition of a beloved
bestseller invites readers to see ourselves as part of nature, not
separate. The world is changing at a relentless pace. How can we
slow down and act from a place of respect for all living things?
The Sacred Balance shows us how. In this extensively updated new
edition, David Suzuki reflects on the increasingly radical changes
in science and nature-from the climate crisis to peak oil and the
rise in clean energy-and examines what they mean for humankind. He
also reflects on what we have learned by listening to Indigenous
leaders, whose knowledge of the natural world is profound, and
whose peoples are on the frontlines of protecting land and water
around the world. Drawing on his own experiences and those of
others who have put their beliefs into action, The Sacred Balance
combines science, philosophy, spirituality, and Indigenous
knowledge to offer concrete suggestions for creating an
ecologically sustainable future by rediscovering and addressing
humanity's basic needs. Published in Partnership with the David
Suzuki Institute
*Part of the 5-Volume Set 2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal
Winner: Ecology & Environment and Special Honors as Best of
Anthology Volume 4 of the Kinship series revolves around the
question of interpersonal relations: Which experiences expand our
understanding of being human in relation to other-than-human
beings? We live in an astounding world of relations. We share these
ties that bind with our fellow humans-and we share these relations
with nonhuman beings as well. From the bacterium swimming in your
belly to the trees exhaling the breath you breathe, this community
of life is our kin-and, for many cultures around the world, being
human is based upon this extended sense of kinship. Kinship:
Belonging in a World of Relations is a lively series that explores
our deep interconnections with the living world. The five Kinship
volumes-Planet, Place, Partners, Persons, Practice-offer essays,
interviews, poetry, and stories of solidarity, highlighting the
interdependence that exists between humans and nonhuman beings.
More than 70 contributors-including Robin Wall Kimmerer, Richard
Powers, David Abram, J. Drew Lanham, and Sharon Blackie-invite
readers into cosmologies, narratives, and everyday interactions
that embrace a more-than-human world as worthy of our response and
responsibility. Kinship spans the cosmos, but it is perhaps most
life changing when experienced directly and personally. "Persons,"
Volume 4 of the Kinship series, attends to the personal-our unique
experiences with particular creatures and landscapes. This includes
nonhuman kin that become our allies, familiars, and teachers as we
navigate a "world as full of persons, human and otherwise, all
more-or-less close kin, all deserving respect," as religious
studies scholar Graham Harvey puts it. The essayists and poets in
the volume share a wide variety of kinship-based experiences-from
Australian ecophilosopher Freya Mathews's perspective on
climate-related devastation on her country's koalas, to English
professor and forest therapy guide Kimberly Ruffin's reclamation of
her "inner animal," to German biologist and philosopher Andreas
Weber's absorption with and by lichen. Our kinships are
interpersonal, and being "pried open with curiosity," as poet and
hip-hop emcee Manon Voice notes in this volume, "Stir the first of
many magicks." Proceeds from sales of Kinship benefit the
nonprofit, non-partisan Center for Humans and Nature, which
partners with some of the brightest minds to explore human
responsibilities to each other and the more-than-human world. The
Center brings together philosophers, ecologists, artists, political
scientists, anthropologists, poets and economists, among others, to
think creatively about a resilient future for the whole community
of life.
*Part of the 5-Volume Set 2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal
Winner: Ecology & Environment and Special Honors as Best of
Anthology Volume 3 of the Kinship series revolves around the
question of interspecies relations: How do relations between and
among different species foster a sense of responsibility and
belonging in us? We live in an astounding world of relations. We
share these ties that bind with our fellow humans-and we share
these relations with nonhuman beings as well. From the bacterium
swimming in your belly to the trees exhaling the breath you
breathe, this community of life is our kin-and, for many cultures
around the world, being human is based upon this extended sense of
kinship. Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations is a lively
series that explores our deep interconnections with the living
world. The five Kinship volumes-Planet, Place, Partners, Persons,
Practice-offer essays, interviews, poetry, and stories of
solidarity, highlighting the interdependence that exists between
humans and nonhuman beings. More than 70 contributors-including
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Richard Powers, David Abram, J. Drew Lanham,
and Sharon Blackie-invite readers into cosmologies, narratives, and
everyday interactions that embrace a more-than-human world as
worthy of our response and responsibility. How do cultural
traditions, narratives, and mythologies shape the ways we relate,
or not, to other beings as kin? "Partners," Volume 3 of the Kinship
series, looks to the intimate relationships of respect and
reverence we share with nonhuman species. The essayists and poets
in this volume explore the stunning diversity of our relations to
nonhuman persons-from biologist Merlin Sheldrake's reflections on
microscopic fungal networks, to writer Julian Hoffman's moving
stories about elephant emotions and communication, to Indigenous
seed activist Rowen White's deep care for plant relatives and
ancestors. Our relationships to other creatures are not merely
important; they make us possible. As poet Brenda Cardenas, inspired
by her cultural connections to the monarch butterfly, notes in this
volume: "We are- / one life passing through the prism / of all
others, gathering color and song." Proceeds from sales of Kinship
benefit the nonprofit, non-partisan Center for Humans and Nature,
which partners with some of the brightest minds to explore human
responsibilities to each other and the more-than-human world. The
Center brings together philosophers, ecologists, artists, political
scientists, anthropologists, poets and economists, among others, to
think creatively about a resilient future for the whole community
of life.
*Part of the 5-Volume Set 2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal
Winner: Ecology & Environment and Special Honors as Best of
Anthology Volume 5 of the Kinship series revolves around the
question of practice: What are the practical, everyday, and
lifelong ways we become kin? We live in an astounding world of
relations. We share these ties that bind with our fellow humans-and
we share these relations with nonhuman beings as well. From the
bacterium swimming in your belly to the trees exhaling the breath
you breathe, this community of life is our kin-and, for many
cultures around the world, being human is based upon this extended
sense of kinship. Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations is a
lively series that explores our deep interconnections with the
living world. These five Kinship volumes-Planet, Place, Partners,
Persons, Practice-offer essays, interviews, poetry, and stories of
solidarity, highlighting the interdependence that exists between
humans and nonhuman beings. More than 70 contributors-including
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Richard Powers, David Abram, J. Drew Lanham,
and Sharon Blackie-invite readers into cosmologies, narratives, and
everyday interactions that embrace a more-than-human world as
worthy of our response and responsibility. These diverse voices
render a wide range of possibilities for becoming better kin. From
the perspective of kinship as a recognition of nonhuman personhood,
of kincentric ethics, and of kinship as a verb involving active and
ongoing participation, how are we to live? "Practice," Volume 5 of
the Kinship series, turns to the relations that we nurture and
cultivate as part of our lived ethics. The essayists and poets in
this volume explore how we make kin and strengthen kin
relationships through respectful participation-from creative writer
and dance teacher Maya Ward's weave of landscape, story, song, and
body, to Lakota peace activist Tiokasin Ghosthorse's reflections on
language as a key way of knowing and practicing kinship, to
cultural geographer Amba Sepie's wrestling with how to become kin
when ancestral connections have frayed. The volume concludes with
an amazing and spirited conversation between John Hausdoerffer,
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Sharon Blackie, Enrique Salmon, Orrin
Williams, and Maria Isabel Morales on the breadth and qualities of
kinship practices. Proceeds from sales of Kinship benefit the
nonprofit, non-partisan Center for Humans and Nature, which
partners with some of the brightest minds to explore human
responsibilities to each other and the more-than-human world. The
Center brings together philosophers, ecologists, artists, political
scientists, anthropologists, poets and economists, among others, to
think creatively about a resilient future for the whole community
of life.
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.
Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a
common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world.
Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal
reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the
elegantly simple lives of mosses.
Robin Wall Kimmerer's book is not an identification guide, nor
is it a scientific treatise. Rather, it is a series of linked
personal essays that will lead general readers and scientists alike
to an understanding of how mosses live and how their lives are
intertwined with the lives of countless other beings, from salmon
and hummingbirds to redwoods and rednecks. Kimmerer clearly and
artfully explains the biology of mosses, while at the same time
reflecting on what these fascinating organisms have to teach
us.
Drawing on her diverse experiences as a scientist, mother,
teacher, and writer of Native American heritage, Kimmerer explains
the stories of mosses in scientific terms as well as in the
framework of indigenous ways of knowing. In her book, the natural
history and cultural relationships of mosses become a powerful
metaphor for ways of living in the world.
Gathering Moss will appeal to a wide range of readers, from
bryologists to those interested in natural history and the
environment, Native Americans, and contemporary nature and science
writing.
*Part of the 5-Volume Set 2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal
Winner: Ecology & Environment and Special Honors as Best of
Anthology Volume 2 of the Kinship series revolves around the
question of place-based relations: To what extent does crafting a
deeper connection with the Earth's bioregions reinvigorate a sense
of kinship with the place-based beings, systems, and communities
that mutually shape one another? We live in an astounding world of
relations. We share these ties that bind with our fellow humans-and
we share these relations with nonhuman beings as well. From the
bacterium swimming in your belly to the trees exhaling the breath
you breathe, this community of life is our kin-and, for many
cultures around the world, being human is based upon this extended
sense of kinship. Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations is a
lively series that explores our deep interconnections with the
living world. The five Kinship volumes-Planet, Place, Partners,
Persons, Practice-offer essays, interviews, poetry, and stories of
solidarity, highlighting the interdependence that exists between
humans and nonhuman beings. More than 70 contributors-including
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Richard Powers, David Abram, J. Drew Lanham,
and Sharon Blackie-invite readers into cosmologies, narratives, and
everyday interactions that embrace a more-than-human world as
worthy of our response and responsibility. Given the place-based
circumstances of human evolution and culture, global consciousness
may be too broad a scale of care. "Place," Volume 2 of the Kinship
series, addresses the bioregional, multispecies communities and
landscapes within which we dwell. The essayists and poets in this
volume take us around the world to a variety of distinctive
places-from ethnobiologist Gary Paul Nabhan's beloved and
beleaguered sacred U.S.-Mexico borderlands, to Pacific islander and
poet Craig Santos Perez's ancestral shores, to writer Lisa Maria
Madera's "vibrant flow of kinship" in the equatorial Andes
expressed in Pacha Mama's constitutional rights in Ecuador. As
Chippewa scholar-activist Melissa Nelson observes about kinning
with place in her conversation with John Hausdoerffer: "Whether a
desert mesa, a forested mountain, a windswept plain, or a crowded
city-those places also participate in this serious play with raven
cries, northern winds, car traffic, or coyote howls." This volume
reveals the ways in which playing in, tending to, and caring for
place wraps us into a world of kinship. Proceeds from sales of
Kinship benefit the nonprofit, non-partisan Center for Humans and
Nature, which partners with some of the brightest minds to explore
human responsibilities to each other and the more-than-human world.
The Center brings together philosophers, ecologists, artists,
political scientists, anthropologists, poets and economists, among
others, to think creatively about a resilient future for the whole
community of life.
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the
environmental movement. In The Democracy of Species Robin Wall
Kimmerer guides us towards a more reciprocal, grateful and joyful
relationship with our animate earth, from the wild leeks in the
field to the deer in the woods. Over the past 75 years, a new canon
has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by
humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their
voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of
its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades,
becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the
richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer,
saner, greener world.
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