Braiding Sweetgrass

As a scientist researching biology, the author understands how vulnerable and fragile our world is. But as an active citizen and representative of the Indigenous Potawatomi people—who hasn’t lost connection with her roots—she feels and studies the world in a way that is far older than any science. In this book, both approaches to learning about the world are intertwined: analytical and emotional, scientific and cultural—so that, in the end, we can find ways to overcome the widening gap between people and nature. Woven from real stories and legends, the book returns people to dialogue with everything that greens and grows, with the Universe that has never stopped communicating with us—even when we forgot how to listen.