treesdurham book club
Join us and form part of our TreesDurham Book Club. The aim is to create a forum for shared learning and meet new and diverse people with common interests. We intend to make this lighthearted and fun. The members will select books; when possible, TreesDurham will provide the books.
You are invited to join our March Book Club Meeting, Monday, March 21, 2022 at 6:30 P.M.
If you have additional questions, contact your host, Berry Puma, at berrypuma@yahoo.com.
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED TO SECURE YOUR SEAT!
March Book of the Month:
Braiding Sweetgrass
Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
You are invited to join our March Book Club Meeting, Monday, March 21, 2022 at 6:30 P.M.
If you have additional questions, contact your host, Berry Puma, at berrypuma@yahoo.com.
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED TO SECURE YOUR SEAT!
March Book of the Month:
Braiding Sweetgrass
Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
By: Robin Wall 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 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, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings―asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass―offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of 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 will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings―asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass―offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of 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 will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.