Gillian’s Reviews > Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants > Status Update

The ideas in this book are so healing, and beautifully written. I love this feature of the Potomi language that verbs and nouns are defined not by gender but by animate and inanimate, and that animate extends to all living things like “to be a bay”
Her ideas about gifting, entitlement, and appreciation of earth and its resources are also transformative and I will try to carry them with me a going forward