Braiding Sweetgrass
What it is: Robin Wall Kimmerer, botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, braids Indigenous knowledge, scientific training, and the teachings of plants into a meditation on reciprocity with the living world.
A line I keep: "people and land are good medicine for each other."
From my margins: Before even getting to page one, she illustrates the beauty of doing hard things together. I am in love with the challenge.
Why it matters to the New Earth: It quietly dismantles the story most of us were handed, that humans and nature are a bad mix, and offers gratitude and reciprocity as the practice of belonging to a place.
What to do with it: Read it slowly. Let it change how you say thank you to the ground.
No spam, no sharing to third party. Only you and me.
