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Braiding Sweetgrass de Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass

Autor Robin Wall Kimmerer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 apr 2020

Adresat în egală măsură pasionaților de ecologie, grădinarilor care caută un sens mai profund în munca lor și celor interesați de înțelepciunea indigenă, Braiding Sweetgrass este o invitație la reconectare. Credem că valoarea acestui volum rezidă în capacitatea autoarei de a reconcilia două lumi aparent opuse: rigoarea obiectivă a botanicii moderne și viziunea sacră a tradiției Potawatomi. Robin Wall Kimmerer nu ne oferă doar un tratat de biologie, ci o serie de eseuri care funcționează ca niște lecții de viață primite direct de la natură. Apreciem modul în care structura cărții oglindește titlul, împletind datele despre fotosinteză și ecologia speciilor cu mitul creării Insulei Broască Țestoasă. Subliniem faptul că, spre deosebire de alte lucrări pur tehnice, aici plantele nu sunt simple resurse, ci învățători. Pe aceeași linie cu Gathering Moss, unde autoarea explorează universul minuscul al mușchilor, Braiding Sweetgrass extinde această atenție asupra întregului ecosistem, dar cu un accent mult mai pronunțat pe responsabilitatea umană și pe conceptul de 'dar' al pământului. Volumul este similar ca viziune cu This Book is a Plant, însă se diferențiază prin profunzimea personală a relatărilor și prin ancorarea puternică în identitatea indigenă. Lectura are un ritm meditativ, îndemnând la o conștientizare ecologică ce depășește simpla conservare, transformând-o într-o celebrare a existenței comune.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141991955
ISBN-10: 014199195X
Pagini: 309
Dimensiuni: 128 x 195 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru oricine simte nevoia unei perspective mai calde și mai etice asupra mediului înconjurător. Veți câștiga o înțelegere nouă a modului în care natura funcționează ca un sistem de daruri reciproce, nu doar de resurse exploatabile. Este o carte care vă va învăța să ascultați limbajul plantelor și să redescoperiți recunoștința în interacțiunile zilnice cu lumea naturală.

Despre autor

Robin Wall Kimmerer este profesoară de biologia mediului și a pădurilor la State University of New York, fiind recunoscută la nivel mondial pentru eforturile sale de a integra cunoașterea științifică cu filozofia tradițională indigenă. Membră a națiunii Citizen Potawatomi, ea a publicat numeroase articole despre ecologia mușchilor și cunoștințele ancestrale asupra lumii vii. Debutul său editorial, Gathering Moss, a pus bazele stilului său literar unic, care îmbină sensibilitatea poetică cu observația empirică, teme pe care le-a extins și în lucrări precum The Democracy of Species.

Notă biografică

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. 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.

Recenzii

Kimmerer eloquently makes the case that by observing and celebrating our reciprocal relationship with the natural world, one can gain greater ecological consciousness.
Braiding Sweetgrass is the book we all need right now. It is a vision of a new world, of reciprocity, gratitude and seeing the living world for what it is: an abundance of gifts. Kimmerer is uniquely placed to braid indigenous knowledge with scientific learnings and she does it with kindness, ingenuity and a poet's prose. It is truly the text for our times.
An extraordinary book, showing how the factual, objective approach of science can be enriched by the ancient knowledge of the indigenous people. It is the way she captures beauty that I love the most - the images of giant cedars and wild strawberries, a forest in the rain and a meadow of fragrant sweetgrass will stay with you long after you read the last page
One of the most beautiful books I've ever read.
I give daily thanks for Robin Wall Kimmerer for being a font of endless knowledge, both mental and spiritual.
Reading this book was like looking at the world afresh. Radical, hopeful, honest and wise, Robin Wall Kimmerer has woven us a precious heartsong for difficult times
A journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise
Robin Wall Kimmerer opens a sense of wonder and humility for the intelligence in all kinds of life we are used to naming and imagining as inanimate.
In a world where only six percent of mammalian biomass on the planet now comprises of wild animals, I longed for books that pressed me up against the inhuman, that connected me to an inhuman world. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer moved me to actual tears
With deep compassion and graceful prose, Robin Wall Kimmerer encourages readers to consid­er the ways that our lives and language weave through the natural world. A mesmerizing story­teller, she shares legends from her Potawatomi ancestors to illustrate the culture of gratitude in which we all should live
In Braiding Sweetgrass, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer tackles everything from sustainable agriculture to pond scum as a reflection of her Potawatomi heritage, which carries a stewardship 'which could not be taken by history: the knowing that we belonged to the land.' . . . It's a book absorbed with the unfolding of the world to observant eyes?that sense of discovery that draws us in.
The gift of Robin Wall Kimmerer's book is that she provides readers the ability to see a very common world in uncommon ways, or, rather, in ways that have been commonly held but have recently been largely discarded. She puts forth the notion that we ought to be interacting in such a way that the land should be thankful for the people
Beautifully written . . . Anyone who enjoys reading about natural history, botany, protecting na­ture, or Native American culture will love this book
Professor and botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer knows that the answer to all forms of ecological unbalance have long been hidden in plain sight, told in the language of plants and animals, minerals and elements. She draws on her own heritage . . . pairing science with Indigenous principles and storytelling to advocate for a renewed connection between human beings and nature.

Descriere scurtă

An enlightening work of Native American natural history, striking a similar note to "The Lost Words" and "The Secret Life Of Trees".

Descriere

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.