#1 in Nature & environment
Braiding Sweetgrass
- 456
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 106 weeks on the list, peaked at #4
- Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award
- Rochester Reads
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Our view
“Braiding Sweetgrass” joins scientific knowledge, Indigenous teaching and personal anecdote into one way of looking at the living world. Some readers describe it as an answer to environmental despair: Kimmerer does not scold, she places people back inside the ecosystem. Her prose leans towards poetry, light in touch and serious underneath, and its more than four hundred and fifty pages are best taken slowly.
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About the book
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants is a 2013 nonfiction book by Potawatomi professor Robin Wall Kimmerer, about the role of Indigenous knowledge as an alternative or complementary approach to Western mainstream scientific methodologies.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 9.0 across 369 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 72% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Nature & environment average of 8.1. That is how 8.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 9.2 | 13 | 4% |
| Hardcover | 9.0 | 356 | 97% |
Frequently asked
How long is Braiding Sweetgrass?
It has 456 pages — longer than 75% of the ranked books in Nature & environment.
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