Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Kimmerer is a botanist and a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and she writes about plants as if they have something to teach us, because they do. The book is a counter-narrative to extractive ecology — gratitude instead of exploitation, reciprocity instead of dominance. In a literature of environmental grief, it is an anomaly: something that makes the loss bearable by insisting on what remains and what it means.