
Through a Different Lens: A Nonfiction Book Club
Mon, Nov 14
|At Birch Tree
Join us for a discussion of Braiding Sweet Grass by Robin Wall Kimmerer with your host, Candy.


Time & Location
Nov 14, 2022, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
At Birch Tree, 26 N King St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA
About the event
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 , 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).Braiding Sweetgrass
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…