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Braiding Sweetgrass (AudiobookFormat, 2016, Tantor Audio) 5 stars

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with …

I want to braid sweetgrass.

5 stars

I'm glad that I decided to listen to the audiobook. You can hear the care and passion in Robin's voice as she tells her stories.

This book made me want to reconnect with nature. It brought to light so many things that I never would have even considered as someone who was raised without nature being a regular thing in my life. There was an abundance of information to be found in this book, from why the cost of Native-made goods is on the higher side (spoiler, it's because they don't take from the earth before it's ok to) to how a swamp ecosystem would have provided enough nutrients for people to survive without even needing to hunt. I had no idea that cattails could be used in so many ways.

I have a feeling this is an audiobook that I will be listening to a few times over the years.