The author of "Braiding Sweetgrass" on how human people are only one manifestation of intelligence in the living world. The intelligence of plants has long been a theme of literature, philosophy, and ...

Bestselling author Robin Wall Kimmerer discusses the role of ceremony in our lives, and how to celebrate reciprocal relationships with the natural world. This website uses cookies to improve your ...

Author and botanist visited MSU's campus, including the Beal Botanical Garden, during the university's annual Science Festival. Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book Braiding Sweetgrass was first published more ...

The world is a gift, not a giant Amazon warehouse, Robin Wall Kimmerer said. In her new book, “The Serviceberry,” she proposes gratitude as an antidote to prevailing views of nature as a commodity. By ...

Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, was first published nearly a decade ago—but in 2020, the book made the New ...

GETTYSBURG, Pa. — A dozen years ago, Robin Wall Kimmerer submitted an unsolicited manuscript to Milkweed, a nonprofit independent press in Minneapolis. It was a brick of about 750 pages. “I sent it ...

When “Braiding Sweetgrass” arrived on the bestseller list in February 2020, it surprised the literary world. The book hadn’t followed the usual path: It had come out more than six years earlier. It ...