And just a note: this conversation was recorded in front of a live Zoom audience. KATHLEEN DAVIS: We are so excited to have you as well. As a regular listener of Science Friday, I’m really excited. And last but not least, she recently received the MacArthur Genius Award. She is also the Founder and Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry based in Syracuse, New York. And she is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants. Kimmerer is a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Robin Wall Kimmerer has thought deeply about the reciprocity between humans and plants, by drawing on both her scientific expertise and Indigenous wisdom.ĭr.
And I see a weed-like Mugwort that’s resilient against all odds. And I think about this when I read the latest scientific paper about the impacts of climate change, but also when I’m on a walk. I think about the natural world a lot, that it’s full of wonder and beauty, but also that it is in crisis. In this SciFri Book Club discussion, recorded before a live Zoom audience, she discusses the book, the role of ceremony in our lives, and the challenge of addressing ecological issues such as exotic species within a reciprocal framework. Kimmerer is a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. “I think we can care better for one another, for the land, and in fact we can do better science when we consider all of these streams of evidence, and assumptions, about the living world,” says Kimmerer. Kimmerer writes that improving our relationship with nature requires the acknowledgment and celebration of a reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. The book explores the lessons and gifts that the natural world, especially plants, have to offer to people. 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 York Times best-seller lists, propelled mainly by word of mouth.
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