Updated with a new introduction from Robin Wall Kimmerer, the hardcover special edition of Braiding Sweetgrass, reissued in honor of the fortieth anniversary of Milkweed Editions, celebrates the book as an object of meaning that will last the ages. Beautifully bound with a new cover featuring an engraving by Tony Drehfal, this edition includes a bookmark ribbon, a deckled edge,...
Updated with a new introduction from Robin Wall Kimmerer, the hardcover special edition of Braiding Sweetgrass, reissued in honor of the fortieth anniversary of Milkweed Editions, celebrates the book as an object of meaning that will last the ages. Beautifully bound with a new cover featuring an engraving by Tony Drehfal, this edition includes a bookmark ribbon, a deckled edge, and five brilliantly colored illustrations by artist Nate Christopherson. In increasingly dark times, we honor the experience that more than 350,000 readers in North America have cherished about the book—gentle, simple, tactile, beautiful, even sacred—and offer an edition that will inspire readers to gift it again and again, spreading the word about scientific knowledge, indigenous wisdom, and the teachings of plants.
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 two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert).
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass—offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices. In a rich braid of reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: 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 will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.
作者简介
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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 E...
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.
我们的故事是这么说的：在所有植物中，茅香是最早种在大地上的种类，它的香气源自天女的手的甜蜜回忆。因此，它也被我的族人尊为四大神圣植物之一。嗅着它的香气，你会开始回想起那些自己在不经意间遗忘的东西。我们的长老说，仪式就是让我们“记得要去铭记”（remember to remember）的途径，因此茅香是一种能量强大的用于仪式上的植物，受到很多原住民族群的珍视。它还可以用来编织漂亮的篮子。它既是药物，也是我们的亲人，既有实际用途，也有精神价值。 (查看原文)
Audible 4.7. 2023. A little redundant but for the most part beautifully written. Botany, sustainability, restoring relationship between humans and the nature, inspiration of indigenous perspectives.
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0 有用 Gale 2024-03-04 23:03:54 美国
太长了吧......听了两天了还不到四分之一
0 有用 左岸单行道 2023-04-08 05:56:33 美国
Audible 4.7. 2023. A little redundant but for the most part beautifully written. Botany, sustainability, restoring relationship between humans and the nature, inspiration of indigenous perspectives.
0 有用 壹迟 2021-09-16 12:37:12
Embodied nature; a new way of entering nature.
1 有用 etoile 2021-12-31 09:14:05
Ok, not my type of book. Story flows like water but kind of lack of taste like water too.
0 有用 夏冰雹 2022-07-20 07:51:14
印第安人、植物学家作者反复提到人与自然的割裂，动植物之间互相赠与养分、互相回馈，而人与自然之间不是如此。在西方白人的心目中，土地就是财产、不动产、资本或自然资源，但对印第安人来说，土地是身份认同、对祖先的记忆、非人类亲属的家、药房、图书馆，土地是一切。“我们的土地是我们对世界承担责任的地方，是神圣的土地。它属于它自己；它是自然的馈赠，不是商品，所以它永远不能买卖。”
0 有用 Richard 2024-05-27 09:57:57 加拿大
Tender, gentle, warm, poetic. But lacks a bit of conviction.
0 有用 Gawiel 2024-04-29 22:52:45 美国
因为飞机延误而开始读，更接近散文集或者随笔集，非常适合挑选其中几篇来教课用，不用从头到尾通读，通读的话就显得重复了；是很合适的零散时间闲书
0 有用 Sirius 2024-04-05 22:40:57 浙江
DNF。现代性的特征是对自然的役使，二十世纪的历史正是对自然持续占有、汲取和争夺的历史。而如今，当现代性出现重重危机，当无限发展的许诺成为人人皆知的幻影，当人们在钢筋水泥中日复一日做着虚无的工作，与自然贴近、回归田园重新成为一剂心灵的万能药方。因此很能理解本书在欧美的受欢迎，书中描绘原住民和自然和谐共生、充满灵性的关系，劳作和收获、赠予和感恩。这无疑正中了某种时代情结：通过对“旧”文化的寄情想象，... DNF。现代性的特征是对自然的役使，二十世纪的历史正是对自然持续占有、汲取和争夺的历史。而如今，当现代性出现重重危机，当无限发展的许诺成为人人皆知的幻影，当人们在钢筋水泥中日复一日做着虚无的工作，与自然贴近、回归田园重新成为一剂心灵的万能药方。因此很能理解本书在欧美的受欢迎，书中描绘原住民和自然和谐共生、充满灵性的关系，劳作和收获、赠予和感恩。这无疑正中了某种时代情结：通过对“旧”文化的寄情想象，反抗现代扩张逻辑和科学至上主义（对白人来说，对被殖民文化的歌颂还有缓解种族负罪感的疗效）只是这也带来了过度简化的风险。本书叙述太过单一浅显，这或许是失落了原有语言和文化之流民的共有症结，对故土满腔真诚热爱，诠释它时又很难不变成镜中的复调重唱。重构人与自然关系的愿景建筑其上，也终究犹如一场空中楼阁。 (展开)
0 有用 momo 2024-03-13 21:31:19 四川
读得好辛苦。从思维到话题到词语，太多不懂的了……大概学生考四六级就是这个感受。 靠有声书听完了，文字清新，言语温柔。确实也接触了一种不同看世界的角度-虽然不能完全认同。
0 有用 Gale 2024-03-04 23:03:54 美国
太长了吧......听了两天了还不到四分之一