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Robin Wall Kimmerer is a botanist, professor of environmental biology, and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Her work bridges Indigenous knowledge and Western science, focusing on ecology, restoration, and the cultural significance of plants.
Known for: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Drawing on her life as an Indigenous scientist, botanist, and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Robin Wall Kimmerer explores the reciprocal relationship between humans and the natural world. Th...
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Gathering Moss es una colección de ensayos que combina ciencia, historia natural y reflexión personal para explorar el mundo de los musgos. Robin Wall Kimmerer, botánica y miembro de la Nación Potawat...
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Planting Sweetgrass
When I begin with sweetgrass, I begin with memory. My childhood was a mosaic of forest paths, maple sap buckets, and the quiet lessons of my Potawatomi family. Yet I also entered the halls of academia, where the scientific method demanded detachment, quantification, and neutrality. For a long time, ...
From Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
The Gift Economy of Nature
Imagine walking into a forest where every tree, every moss, every bird carries a story of generosity. That is the world I know—a world rooted not in ownership, but in gift. In Potawatomi teachings, the land itself is a giver of gifts. The berries, the rain, the soil—they are all offerings, freely gi...
From Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
The Nature of Moss
To understand mosses, we must first recognize their remarkable simplicity. They are among the earliest plant forms, having thrived on Earth for about 450 million years. Without roots, without flowers, without woody stems, they are nonetheless architects of entire ecosystems. Mosses absorb water dire...
From Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Observation and Attention
My scientific training taught me to categorize, measure, and label—but the mosses demanded something more intimate. They required slowing down, kneeling, breathing with them. Observation is not just a method—it is an ethic. To look closely at moss is to enter its rhythm, where time stretches and bou...
From Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
About Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a botanist, professor of environmental biology, and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Her work bridges Indigenous knowledge and Western science, focusing on ecology, restoration, and the cultural significance of plants. She teaches at the State University of New York Co...
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Robin Wall Kimmerer is a botanist, professor of environmental biology, and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Her work bridges Indigenous knowledge and Western science, focusing on ecology, restoration, and the cultural significance of plants. She teaches at the State University of New York Co...
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a botanist, professor of environmental biology, and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Her work bridges Indigenous knowledge and Western science, focusing on ecology, restoration, and the cultural significance of plants. She teaches at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
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