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Book Club & DiscussionAge Group:
Adults- Registration is required for this event.
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Program Description
Event Details
Adult Program
Join as we discuss Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Kimmerer (details below)
This book will be available in limited physical quantities at the library circulation desk about a month before we meet. E-book and audiobook formats are available in both Libby and Hoopla. Please register so I can prepare seating, send discussion questions and a Zoom link in case you decide to attend virtually. This is a hybrid event - attend in person or virtually via Zoom. You must have a valid email address to use Zoom.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
by Robin Kimmerer
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 lenses of knowledge together to show that the awakening of a wider 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 are we capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learning to give our own gifts in return.
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