Sierra Club Book Club: Braiding Sweetgrass

We will be meeting to discuss, Braided Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.  It comes very well reviewed, and the shortest description is from npr.org:

“Explains how developing a wider ecological consciousness can foster an increased understanding of both nature’s generosity and the reciprocal relationship humans have with the natural world.”

Here’s an excerpt from Amazon.com: 

“The book that, ‘anyone interested in natural history, botany, protecting nature, or Native American culture will love,’ by Library Journal, Braiding Sweetgrass is poised to be a classic of nature writing. As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer asks questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces indigenous teachings that consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take ‘us on a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise’ (Elizabeth Gilbert). Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices.”

This should be a great read, and all of our past book club meetings have been well attended.

Next month’s book will be discussed a month later to due to Austin Sierra Club’s Holiday party falling on the day/time when the book club normally meets.  So you have two months to read, “A Passion for Nature The Life of John Muir” by Donald Worster.   You’re welcome to read a different biography of John Muir.  We’ll meet the third Tuesday of January.