Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Braiding Sweetgrass

Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

2013 • 391 pages

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Excellent and highly unusual balance of spiritual and scientific wisdom, honoring both sides of the truth, in which artistic and rational methods are not in opposition but complement and complete one another. It's both/and, not either/or! If only more scientists would start to think this way, we might actually have a future.

I was only disappointed that Kimmerer is too dismissive of Western tradition and its contributions. Nothing is gained by categorically devaluing the Judeo-Christian worldview, in spite of the atrocities done in its name. It doesn't have to be that way. (Eve was an indigenous woman too!)

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