Gathering Moss, Braiding Sweetgrass 2 Books Collection Set by Robin Wall Kimmerer

by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Gathering Moss, Braiding Sweetgrass 2 Books Collection Set By Robin Wall

Gathering
Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses. Robin Wall Kimmerer's book is not an identification guide, nor is it a scientific treatise. Rather, it is a series of linked personal essays that will lead general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how mosses live and how their lives.

Braiding
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).

Genres: Nonfiction, Nature, Environment

576 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2022

About the author

Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer (also credited as Robin W. Kimmerer) (born 1953) is Associate Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF). She is the author of numerous scientific articles, and the book Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. She is Potawatomi and combines her heritage with her scientific and environmental passions.

Reviews

[Laura Neale · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think I can call this book my bible. I will recommend this book again and again to others as I think it has knowledge all people need to not just live on the earth but live with the earth. It reads beautifully and so differently to any other science or ecology book out there. It has elements that expose the author’s literature capabilities while still teaching about ecosystem connection and indigenous knowledge. It’s divided into stories that make it so accessible and less tiring than typical non fictions. JUST WOW!! I can feel how much she cares for writing, science and her culture through her words.

[Megs M · Rating 5 out of 5]

I couldn’t find braiding sweet grass as a book alone on here. But I LOVE the is author. It was lovely audio boom to listen to during outdoor walks and makes me appreciate my summer garden 10-fold.

[Bridget Goode · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book so so so much. From the first page I felt like I was sitting on my best friend’s couch with a fire going, drinking tea. This book is welcoming, loving, sweet. Like “The Great British Bake Off” will make you want to eat a 7 layer chocolate cake or beignets, this book will make you want to take to the wilderness and find the tiny wilderness amongst the trees (so be careful reading this during the winter, now I’m stuck inside, cakeless and moss-less). I will be reading this every year, only during the spring and summer months.

[Andrea Andres · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you already have a deep appreciation of all things mossy and green the details that Robin dives into will be like a sweet bedtime story. It left me daydreaming of following her while walking my mossy BC trails. I want to learn all I can. Gleaning appreciation of history and knowledge she's so graciously shared, I will never forget. Such a treasure.

[Michael Sullivan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this with my 14-16 year olds, and although it does a decent job translating some of the airier concepts from the "adult" version into student-friendly language, quite a bit is still lost in translation. If you can read the original, you should: its superior in almost every way.

[Mim · Rating 4 out of 5]

I didn’t have this edition! Grrr. I had a kindle version of gathering moss as I was traveling and easier to have on kindle. I became fascinated by moss and had opportunity to see a lot of it at Buddhist temples in Japan. I learned so much. But as poetically written as braiding Sweetgrass but enjoyable.