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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what...
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Publisher
Trumpeter Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xi, 195 p. ; 22 cm
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English
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"In an effort to make sense of the deaths of several loved ones, Kathleen Dean Moore turned to the comfort of the wild, making a series of excursions into ancient forests, wild rivers, remote deserts, and windswept islands to learn what the natural world could teach her about sorrow and gladness. This book is the record of her experiences. It?s a stunning collection of carefully observed accounts of her life?tracking otters on the beach, cooking breakfast...
Publisher
Depth Media LLC
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (030 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Recorded over a five year period in Southeast Alaska and on the Washington State coast, juxtaposes music, poetry and video in order to create a visceral, immediate experience of the Pacific Northwest coast. The "tone poems" can stand alone or work together in varying sequences. The choices include Meditations on a wild coast (an arrangement of film tone poems or compositions), and the compositions themselves which can be viewed viewed individually,...
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