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Environmentalism Book Club

"Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer

2025-05-14 19:00:00 2025-05-14 20:30:00 America/New_York Environmentalism Book Club Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants. "A journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise." Westlake Porter Public Library - Dover Room

Wednesday, May 14
7:00pm - 8:30pm

Add to Calendar 2025-05-14 19:00:00 2025-05-14 20:30:00 America/New_York Environmentalism Book Club Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants. "A journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise." Westlake Porter Public Library - Dover Room

Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants. "A journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise."

Our 5th selection is Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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A New York Times Bestseller | A Washington Post Bestseller | A Los Angeles Times Bestseller | Named a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary Hub | A Book Riot "Favorite Summer Read of 2020" | A Food Tank Fall 2020 Reading Recommendation

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 with a new cover featuring an engraving by Tony Drehfal, this edition includes a bookmark ribbon and 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

This group will meet the second Wednesday of each month. Registration is required.

Copies of this title will be available for checkout at the Circulation Desk.

If you have any questions, please email: elyse.kaderli@westlakelibrary.org.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Books and Authors |

TAGS: | Environmentalism | book club |

Westlake Porter Public Library

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Tue, May 13 9:00AM to 9:00PM
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Thu, May 15 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Fri, May 16 9:00AM to 6:00PM
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Fri, May 16 9:00AM to 6:00PM
Sat, May 17 9:00AM to 6:00PM
Sun, May 18 1:00PM to 5:00PM

About the branch

Westlake Porter Public Library is an independent public library serving the residents of the city of Westlake, western Cuyahoga County and eastern Lorain County. The library is located at 27333 Center Ridge Road in Westlake, Ohio. Anyone who lives, works, owns property, or goes to school in Ohio can register for a free library card.

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