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Come botanica, Robin Wall Kimmerer è abituata a porsi domande sulla natura dal punto di vista della scienza. Come appartenente alla Nazione Potawatomi, sa che piante e animali sono i nostri primi maestri. Nelle pagine de La meravigliosa trama del tutto unisce questi due approcci per trascinare il lettore in un viaggio tra mito e scienza, sacro e storico, cultura e saggezza. Nel ripercorrere la propria esperienza di scienziata nativa, madre, donna, l’autrice mostra in che modo gli altri esseri viventi – siano essi salici o giunchiglie, fragole o falene, salamandre, alghe o l’erba sacra che chiamano sweetgrass – ci offrano insegnamenti preziosi, anche se abbiamo dimenticato come ascoltarne le voci. Il ricco intreccio di riflessioni che vanno dalla creazione dell’Isola della Tartaruga, – così i nativi americani chiamano il pianeta -, fino alle forze che oggi la minacciano, ruota attorno a un’idea ben precisa: il risveglio, sempre più urgente, di una decisa coscienza ecologica presuppone il riconoscimento e la celebrazione del nostro rapporto con il resto del mondo vivente.

Updated with a new introduction from Robin Wall Kimmerer, the 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 in stamped linen cloth with a bookmark ribbon and a deckled edge, this edition features 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, and as 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 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 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.