Braiding Sweetgrass

Why it’s on the list: A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation braids together Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plants into a meditation on reciprocity with the living world.

Where I saw it: Recommended by a colleague during a work call in December 2021. (The source note recorded the title as “Braiding Wheat Grass” — corrected here to the actual book.)

Connections

• How to Change Your Mind — also recommended that day; companion nature/consciousness read about humans’ relationship to the non-human world.
• Recommended in a December 2021 work call (private meeting note in the wiki).