While reading this, I thought of how my mother had had asthma as a child but my grandfather, who was very familiar with traditional African medicine (which was of course seen as backwards by Western medicine) knew which plant medicine to give my mother. The book clearly states the importance of the land, for so many reasons: sustenance, healing, etc. But science is rigorous in separating the observer from the observed, and the observed from the observer." "My natural inclination was to see relationships, to seek the threads that connect the world, to join instead of divide. This book was definitely a shout out to indigenous culture and knowledge, knowledge that is often ignored by academia, or seen as wishy-washy or not true science: As much as I focus on indigenous research in my studies, this is the first time I have seen the focus being on science. There is acknowledgement that the previously ignored indigenous cultures and knowledge are absolutely essential. Her love for the land, especially the land she grew up on, comes through very clearly in her writing. Her writing is absolutely stunning and eloquent.
The author is a scientist but she is also a poet. This is by far one of the most important books I’ve read this year. Our PM isn’t that great with environmental issues or indigenous issues, so this is one book I would recommend this book to him if he's not too busy meeting panda bears (. People on Twitter was discussing other books to add to the list to make it more diverse (. In 2007, Yann Martel compiled a reading list for Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper (. And so it is with these silent green lives."- Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
"What if you were a teacher but had no voice to speak your knowledge? What if you had no language at all and yet there was something you needed to say? Wouldn't you dance it? Wouldn't you act it out? Wouldn't your every movement tell the story? In time you would be so eloquent that just to gaze upon you would reveal it all.
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