Didscover the profound connection between humanity and nature with Braiding Sweetgrass, written by leading biology researcher and Potawatomi nation member Robin Wall Kimmerer. Through a unique blend of scientific and cultural perspectives, Kimmerer explores the delicate state of our world and offers a path towards healing the divide between people and the natural world. This beautifully written book is full of interwoven essays that encourage readers to reconnect with the living, growing universe that surrounds us and to rediscover the wisdom it has to offer."--

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants and Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.