Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants Booktrust Teenage Prize (2007) and other physical reactions

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and an aging Venice Beach alcoholic whose life is turned upside down when a meth-addled teenage girl shows up half-dead outside the restroom he calls home

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants Booktrust Teenage Prize (2007) and other physical reactionsBraiding Sweetgrass weaves Indigenous wisdom with scientific knowledge to show how recognizing our reciprocal relationship with the living world can awaken ecological consciousness. Robin Wall Kimmerer, a botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, argues that listening to the languages of other beingsplants, animals, and ecosystemshelps us understand the Earth's generosity and learn to give our own gifts in return.