BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Audiobook)(Nonfiction)

BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Audiobook)(Nonfiction)
Author: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrator: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Release Date: December 27, 2015
Length: 16 hours 44 minutes
Genre: Nonfiction, Science and Nature, Indigenous Studies

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer is a profound blend of indigenous wisdom, scientific insight, and personal narrative, exploring humans' reciprocal relationship with the natural world through the teachings of plants. Released in 2015 as an audiobook narrated by the author, it draws on Kimmerer's background as a Potawatomi botanist to advocate for ecological consciousness, gratitude, and stewardship, becoming a modern classic in environmental literature.

As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent her career learning to ask questions of nature using scientific tools, while as a Potawatomi woman, she draws from elders and history that view plants and animals as our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, she weaves these lenses together to reveal what it means to see humans as "the younger brothers of creation," circling toward a central argument: Awakening a wider ecological consciousness requires acknowledging and celebrating our reciprocal bonds with the world. Through essays on topics like sweetgrass harvesting, maple sugar moons, and the gifts of strawberries, Kimmerer invites listeners to listen for the languages of other beings, understand nature's innumerable gifts, and respond with thanks, care, and our own offerings in return, blending memoir, science, and indigenous storytelling into a call for harmonious living.