The release date for the English version of 'Braiding Sweetgrass' by
Robin Wall Kimmerer is Oct 2013. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Robin Wall Kimmerer has been taught to use scientific methods to explore questions about nature as a botanist. She accepts the idea that our first instructors are plants and animals since she is a Citizen Potawatomi Nation member. Through the combination of these many lenses of knowledge, Kimmerer demonstrates in Braiding Sweetgrass how the recognition and appreciation of our mutual link with all living things is necessary for the emergence of a more expansive ecological awareness. Because it is only by hearing other people's languages that we can come to appreciate the earth's generosity and learn how to repay the favour by giving of ourselves.