Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (Summary, Reviews & Purchase Options)

What if the earth wasn’t just something we live on—but someone we’re in relationship with? In Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer invites you to listen more deeply—to the rustle of sweetgrass, the lessons of salamanders, and the ancient stories carried by strawberries and squash. As both an Indigenous knowledge keeper and a trained botanist, Kimmerer bridges science and spirit, weaving together a worldview where the land is not a resource, but a relative. With lyrical insight and deep humility, she asks us to remember the reciprocity at the heart of all life: that we are not above nature, but of it. For anyone longing to reconnect with meaning, memory, and the living world, this is a book to return to—again and again.