Braiding Sweetgrass
Book by Robin Wall KimmererWikipedia
76
MENTIONS
35
EPISODES
35
PODCASTS
Search complete. 76 mentions across 35 episodes found for "Braiding Sweetgrass".
Sep 12, 2026
Dan SlipakoffGUEST
Kimmerer is an author, botanist, and a member of the Potawatomi Nation, a people forcibly relocated to the prairies from their ancestral homelands in the Great Lakes.
Dan SlipakoffGUEST
She gave me the language for what I was beginning to experience in her opus, Braiding Sweetgrass, She writes about this exact kind of radical attention, weaving together indigenous wisdom, plant science, and her own experience to help heal our relationship with the world.
Dan SlipakoffGUEST
Her insights have been my gratitude guide for the past two seasons.
Dan SlipakoffGUEST
Kimmerer reminded me that before I could cultivate that deep action-driven gratitude, I needed to learn how to recognize what was already being given.
Nate FournierHOST
I highly recommend the book called Serviceberry by Robin Val Kimmermer.
Nate FournierHOST
She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass as well.
Nate FournierHOST
And it is like a serviceberry tree is one of my favorite trees.
Nate FournierHOST
It's a native super plant.
Ralph BenmerguiHOST
Right.
Ralph BenmerguiHOST
I was rereading Braiding Sweetgrass today.
Ralph BenmerguiHOST
the last week or two.
Ralph BenmerguiHOST
And there are so many beautiful, beautiful ideas in there and so many beautiful ways of seeing the world as a living organism that has spirit all the way through it.
speaker_4HOST
They're fleeing into myth and nature.
speaker_4HOST
The bestseller lists are packed with things like the Odyssey, the wisdom of the Odyssey, Circe, Braiding Sweetgrass, Is a River Alive, Raising Hare, and The God of the Woods.
speaker_5HOST
This is a classic sociological reaction to rapid, uncontrollable change.
speaker_5HOST
When the future feels too terrifying, when you are worried about becoming a reverse centaur or surviving a biological war, and the present feels too chaotic, where does the collective consciousness retreat?
speaker_5HOST
It retreats to the ancient past, seeking enduring wisdom, hence the sudden resurgence of ancient Greek foundational myths like the Odyssey and Circe.
speaker_4HOST
And it retreats to the earth itself.
speaker_4HOST
Books like Braiding Sweetgrass and, and A River Alive, it's a desperate grab for grounding.
speaker_4HOST
It's like people are saying, "Look, the algorithms are too complicated.
Tim ChristophersenGUEST
Yeah
Katie TreggidenHOST
... there's a lovely example in Robin Wall Kimmerer's book, Braiding Sweetgrass, where she's able to prove that sweetgrass grows more abundantly in the areas where it is harvested and used for basket weaving, and it's that sort of, that reciprocity that, that when we're in good relationship with nature...
Katie TreggidenHOST
And I lo- I love the idea of a literal relationship because if two human...
Katie TreggidenHOST
You know, if a human was treating another human the way we're treating nature, [laughs] that relationship would be over, I hope.
Heather McLeodHOST
I'm just so impacted by the story within her book, What's the first book? I'm looking at it from here.
Heather McLeodHOST
Braiding Sweetgrass.
Heather McLeodHOST
There we go.
Heather McLeodHOST
Braiding Sweetgrass, where she talks about the assumption was that you had to protect our diminishing wild rice lots so that they wouldn't suffer from people harvesting wild rice.
Heather McLeodHOST
And instead, research was done that proved that they...
Heather McLeodHOST
they benefited from a traditional style of harvest, that they relied upon it in fact, and without people harvesting wild grass, wild rice, it would get less and less healthy and eventually could very well die out.
Tanya MurphyHOST
I recently read the work of Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Tanya MurphyHOST
She's written a book called Braiding Sweetgrass and I highly recommend it for any listeners.
Tanya MurphyHOST
She's a First Nations person of North America and is a botanist and has written this amazing book about ethnobotany and all about the connection between the North American First Nations people.
Tanya MurphyHOST
I feel like First Nations people all over the world have this, many of them have this connection and there's a lot of parallels between the different countries.
Amanda PetersGUEST
I'm listening to Yesteryear.
Amanda PetersGUEST
And I'm also reading Braided Sweetgrass by Robin Kilmer.
Amanda PetersGUEST
So I got a few things going on.
Amanda PetersGUEST
I usually have one on paper on Kobo, my e-reader, and one I'm listening to.
John Calfa IIIGUEST
I mean, if you look at Jane Goodall, and her work evolving over time, she is such a beacon of positivity and of hope and of Really encouraging people to get down in the dirt to see the beauty of the things that we sort of take for granted.
John Calfa IIIGUEST
I'm finishing up Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
John Calfa IIIGUEST
I mean, these are titans in this space who... are really pursuing, I believe, some of the best ways that we can engage in the natural world and understand what the natural world can give us and what we can give them in this partnership.
John Calfa IIIGUEST
So, I mean, those are just, like I say, a handful of, you were saying, Mark, of the 300, close to 300 guests that we've had on and what they've sort of taught over time as we co-evolve and go forward on this blue rock journey You know, going through the universe.
Martha SwalesHOST
Right, yes.
Martha SwalesHOST
So, uh, Robin wrote Braiding Sweetgrass, which is a book that we mentioned on the podcast recently.
Martha SwalesHOST
She's a plant scientist and Indigenous American and has written this beautiful book that I really recommend everybody, uh, goes and reads.
Jamie WaltonHOST
Mm-hmm.
25 more episodes mention Braiding Sweetgrass.
Create an account to see the whole feed, search across every transcript, and follow the entities you care about.