![]() ![]() The leading role in the book belongs to sweetgrass, one of the sacred plants of Native Americans. This way, the book contains major instructive ideas regarding treating the environment, and they are supposed to be observed in this paper. Robin Kimmerer provides readers with a deep insight into the plant microworld and transmits a conscious attitude to nature and the planet. In the book, the author observes the flora through the perspective of Native American and Western Scientific traditions. ![]() A Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology and a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Robin Wall Kimmerer wrote a book Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants. The reason for all of them is humanity’s attitude to nature, which may be characterized as unappreciative, egoistic, and consumerist. Nowadays, ecological issues are acquiring more importance, and people all around the world are aware of global warming, endangered animal and plant species, ocean and air pollution, deforestation, and other environmental problems. ![]()
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