Braiding Sweetgrass
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation weaves indigenous knowledge, scientific training and personal essay into a meditation on reciprocity with the living world: the gift economy, the honorable harvest, gratitude as a practice. It is beautifully written and has become a quiet phenomenon.
Read it if…
you want a book that changes how you feel about gratitude, nature and taking.
Skip it if…
you want a quick read; it is long and meant to be lingered over.
Three things you will actually use
- Gratitude is the beginning of reciprocity.
- Take only what you need; give back.
- The world is a gift, not a resource.
Do this first
Read 'The Gift of Strawberries' and practice one act of reciprocity this week.
Our verdict
Beautiful and quietly transformative.
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