#robin wall kimmerer braiding sweetgrass

[ihearttseliot]

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer

#Robin Wall Kimmerer #Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom #Scientific Knowledge #and the Teachings of Plants #robin wall kimmerer braiding sweetgrass #braiding sweetgrass #braiding sweetgrass book #book #books #quote #quotes #indian #native american #indigenous quotes #indigenous #american indian #book quote #ecological #ecological restoration #restoration #nature #science #indigenous environmental network #environment #environmental #environmental quote #indigenous peoples #environmental science

[eleanor-arroway]

times, places, and practices that I want to learn from to imagine a hopeful future for humanity 🍃

the three sisters (squash, beans, maize) stock photo - alamy // anecdote by Ira Byock about Margaret Mead // art by Amanda Key // always coming home by Ursula K. Le Guin // Yup'ik basket weaver Lucille Westlock photographed by John Rowley // the left hand of darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin // photo by Jacob Klassen // the carrier bag theory of fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin // article in national geographic // the dawn of everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow // braiding sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer // the birchbark house by Louise Erdrich // photo by John Noltner

I'm looking for more content and book recs in this vein, so please send them my way!

#solarpunk #hopepunk #braiding sweetgrass #just a collection of books and pictures that make me hopeful for the future #margaret mead #robin wall kimmerer #nature #ursula k le guin #ursula k. le guin #the left hand of darkness #the carrier bag theory of fiction #the dawn of everything #anthropology #future #hopecore #native plants #biodiversity #sustainability #eco #eco friendly #louise erdrich #civilization

[decolonize-the-left]

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He listened to and enjoyed Potawatomi Nation teachings and died saying Free Palestine. He will be in indigenous history and prayers a long time.

Please read/listen to Braiding Sweetgrass. It's a wonderfully poetic read and additionally an amazing book to add to your decolonial reading list.

#yall i am sobbing that this man had so much allyship and love and patience for indigenous communities #aaron bushnell #braiding sweetgrass #Potawatomi Nation #Robin Wall Kimmerer

[the-bramble--patch]

"what would it be like, I wondered, to live with that heightened sensitivity of the lives given for ours? To consider the tree in the Kleenex, the algae in the toothpaste, the oaks in the floor, the grapes in the wine; to follow back the thread of life in everything and pay it respect? Once you start, it's hard to stop, and you begin to feel yourself awash in gifts."

-Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

#solarpunk #my projects #reading #robin wall kimmerer #braiding sweetgrass #quotes #solarpunk inspiration

[aseaofquotes]

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

#Robin Wall Kimmerer #braiding sweetgrass #commodities #poor #world #gifts #wealth

[backlogbooks]

"In the Western tradition there is a recognized hierarchy of beings, with, of course, the human being on top--the pinnacle of evolution, the darling of Creation--and the plants at the bottom. But in Native ways of knowing, human people are often referred to as "the younger brothers of Creation." We say that humans have the least experience with how to live and thus the most to learn--we must look to our teachers among the other species for guidance. Their wisdom is apparent in the way that they live. They teach us by example. They've been on the earth far longer than we have been, and have had time to figure things out."

-Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

#braiding sweetgrass #robin wall kimmerer #my quotes #mary emma's posts

[doomhope]

Your strange hunger for ease should not mean a death sentence for all of creation.

- Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

#robin wall kimmerer #braiding sweetgrass #climate crisis #upload #words

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

The land knows you, even when you are lost.

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

#book quotes #literature #nature quotes #braiding sweetgrass #robin wall kimmerer #walking in nature #nature #books and libraries

[haveyoureadthispoll]

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 lenses of knowledge together to show 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 are we capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learning to give our own gifts in return.

#polls #book: braiding sweetgrass #author: robin wall kimmerer #genre: non fiction #year: 2010s

[justalittlesolarpunk]

I’m reading Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass at the moment and wow, I’ve cried every chapter so far. The way she nurtures her deep generational pain and turns it into love and wisdom is just awe-inspiring. A lesson we could all learn from

#braiding sweetgrass #hopepunk #solarpunk #environmentalism #social justice #cottagepunk #climate justice #bright future #community #optimism #robin wall kimmerer #indigenous wisdom #plant medicine #potawatomi #the honourable harvest #wiingaashk

[ihearttseliot]

#ihearttseliot #salmon #nature #braiding sweetgrass #sweetgrass #braiding sweetgrass book #quote #quotes #braiding sweetgrass quote #braiding sweetgrass book quote #robin kimmerer #robin wall kimmerer #robin wall kimmerer quote #robin wall kimmerer braiding sweetgrass #indigenous #indigenous quote #nature quote #nature quotes #sea #sea quotes #sea quote #fish

[the-bramble--patch]

"Naturalist E. O. Wilson writes, “There can be no purpose more inspiring than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.” The stories are piling up all around in scraps of land being restored: trout streams reclaimed from siltation, brownfields turned into community gardens, prairies reclaimed from soybeans, wolves howling in their old territories, schoolkids helping salamanders across the road. If your heart isn’t raised by the sight of whooping cranes restored to their ancient flyway, you must not have a pulse. It’s true that these victories are as small and fragile as origami cranes, but their power moves as inspiration. Your hands itch to pull out invasive species and replant the native flowers. Your finger trembles with a wish to detonate the explosion of an obsolete dam that would restore a salmon run. These are antidotes to the poison of despair."

-Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

#solarpunk #my projects #reading #solarpunk inspiration #quotes #braiding sweetgrass #robin wall kimmerer

[tommming]

Gift Economy

Maybe we all feel something so dark and painful deep down, something off and something exhausting about living in this world, which has become so thoroughly pervaded by capitalism and the values of white christian imperialism, because life is a gift meant to be given, and we are not made to exchange one thing for another.

In many indigenous societies, instead of having a transactional economy ("barter" is a myth by the way) there exists what anthropologists call a gift economy, where the main way things get passed around is through gifts and reciprocity.

I think that life itself is a gift we have received, and it's ours to do whatever we want with it, but the best thing to do when you receive a gift is to give again, if you are able. I for one think that the meaning in my life comes from giving; giving myself to my wife, and to my work, giving gifts and sharing love with my friends, giving my heart to music and to the beauty in the world around me. Life is a gift, so I want to give it.

#anthropology #anarchism #robin wall kimmerer #braiding sweetgrass #anti capitalism #gift economy #life #life is a gift #economics #communism #feminism #I got these ideas mainly from Kimmerer's book Braiding Sweetgrass #Also influenced by David Graeber's anarchist anthropology work. #david graeber #capitalist hell #mental health

[theinquisitxor]

January 2024 Reading Wrap

First wrap up of the new year! I read 8 books this month, and I'd say it was a strong reading month overall. I read some new releases, caught up or finished series, and read some good stuff! I read 6 fantasy books, 1 nonfiction, and 1 regular fiction. 6 books I read physical copies, and 2 audiobooks.

1.A Winter's Promise (Mirror Visitor Quartet 1) by Christelle Dabos. 3/5 stars. This is a book I've been wanting to read since before it was translated into English. This book didn't quite live up to the expectations I had of it, but I still overall enjoyed it. I plan to continue the series, possibly quarterly. Young adult fantasy.

2. A Fragile Enchantment by Allison Saft. 4.5/5 stars. Another great Allison Saft book, and this one is possibly my favorite so far. This is exactly my type of fantasy romance and I was very invested in reading this. It's about a young magical seamstress who is commissioned to make the royal wedding clothes for the kingdom's prince. Young adult fantasy.

3.Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard. 3/5 stars. This was a fun read, but not the most exciting or great as it had the potential to be. The story has a fun cast of characters, and enjoyable world, but not a whole lot happened in this book. I can def see Aveyard's LOTR inspirations in this. I plan on continuing this series soon.

4.The Atlas Complex by Olivie Blake. 2/5 stars. This was a disappointing end to a series and was very lackluster and fell apart at the end. Disappointing because of how much I loved book 2. There were some redeeming moments, but much of this book felt unnecessary or frustrating. Adult fantasy.

5.Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. 5/5 stars. This is a collection of essays by the author about the world around us, life, nature, and the way we interact with the world. Absolutely my new favorite thing and much of Kimmerer's teachings in the book resonate with me very deeply. Read on audio- which I highly recommend. Nature/essays.

6.Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde 2) by Heather Fawcett. 5/5 stars. This was just as good as book 1, and I loved the new adventure and learning more about fairies. Emily and Wendall are my favorite, and I can't wait to see how this series concludes.

7.Beartown (Beartown 1) by Fredrik Backman 4.5/5 stars. I read this book in less than 24 hours and it emotionally abused me throughout. I'm late to the game in regards to this book (no pun intended) but I'm glad I finally read it. Backman never disappoints, and I plan to continue the series soon. Fiction.

8. Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children 9) by Seanan McGuire. 4/5 stars. This felt like the continuation of Antsy's story from book 8, but with some of our main cast of characters on a new quest. Very enjoyable and another solid installment in the series. Is the last time we see the "main cast?". Read on audio. Fantasy.

That's it for January! I am currently reading my TBR Pick of the Month, The Throne of the Five Winds, but I am only still in the first half of the book, so I will have to finish it up for Feb. I also started a new nonfiction audiobook, but am still in the first half of that as well.

February TBR:

finish The Throne of the Five Winds by SC Emmett

Crescent City 3

Nonfiction Audiobook (finish)

Blade Breaker by Victoria Aveyard

The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

What Feasts at Night by T Kingfisher

TBR Pick of the month

Us Against You by Fredrik Backman (?)

#reading wrap up #january 2024 #fantasy books #A Winter's Promise #The mirror visitor #A fragile enchantment #allison saft #realm breaker #the atlas complex #Braiding Sweetgrass #Robin Wall Kimmerer #Emily Wilde #emily wilde's map of the otherlands #beartown #fredrick backman #wayward children #mislaid in parts half known #seanan mcguire

[julesofnature]

The trees act not as individuals, but somehow as a collective. Exactly how they do this, we don’t yet know. But what we see is the power of unity. What happens to one happens to us all. We can starve together or feast together.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

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

#Robin Wall Kimmerer #braiding sweetgrass

[chocolattefeverdreams]

Y'all I just finished reading Braiding Sweetgrass and ITS SO GOOD???!! Like I cannot recommend it enough to anyone if anyone hasn't read it PLEASE DO it's an amazing book. Like I just stayed up until 12:14 am just finishing off it but IT WAS SO WORTH IT.

#braiding sweetgrass #robin wall kimmerer #solarpunk #solarpunk books #book recs #solarpunk book recs