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Why I love it
by Glennon Doyle, Author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Untamed

Sue Monk Kidd, the brilliant, beloved storyteller who gifted us with The Secret Life of Bees, has done it again. Her most recent treasure, The Book of Longings, is the first book that has literally taken my breath away. As I read, I had to close it and breathe deeply, again and again.

Both a radical reimagining of the New Testament, and an homage to all untamed, trespassing women, The Book of Longings is right on tim...more

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Why I love itby Glennon Doyle, Author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Untamed Sue Monk Kidd, the brilliant, beloved storyteller who gifted us with The Secret Life of Bees, has done it again. Her most recent treasure, The Book of Longings, is the first book that has literally taken my breath away.

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Here is something I read last year and it is incredible - if you're a fantasy person. N K Jemisin is a BIPOC female author and - the whole trilogy is just awesome.

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I see you posted this a few months ago, so my advice is probably too late. If not, given the novels you listed, he would definitely enjoy this series.I see you posted this a few months ago, so my advice is probably too late. If not, given the novels you listed, he would definitely enjoy this series. Over the course of three novels, the author advances an engaging plot while holding back both on one major plotline as well as the origins of this fantasy world, making this a satisfying slow-reveal series. However, there is some sex in the novel, including a threesome (whose participants go on to form a family). The threesome made me roll my eyes, as it seemed gratuitous and unnecessary at first, but the author builds the relationship among the three in a meaningful way that both fleshes out personalities and primes the reader to respond sympathically to future events. Maybe a better birthday present in a few years, though exposure to adult themes when embedded in a terrific story has its merits too. Willie Shakespeare...more (less)

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I see you posted this a few months ago, so my advice is probably too late. If not, given the novels you listed, he would definitely enjoy this series.I see you posted this a few months ago, so my advice is probably too late.

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Interesting plot, sorta mystery-like, weaves the story together from parts into a whole. Strong female characters. Pretty light.

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My sister just got me this :) Jessi

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Through green magic, any witch can incorporate the wisdom and energy of the earth into their practice. This fun and informative spell book introduces readers to green witchcraft and then breaks its foundational practices into easy-to-follow sections.

What sets this green witch book apart:

Practical approach-This beginner-friendly book offers inclusive guidance for successfully bringing nature inside your home and into your practice.

Accessible magic-Learn authentic spells, rituals, potions, and practices with a focus on using the components likely to be at hand.

Guided growth-Get expert instruction from a respected witch on how to safely and responsibly add the magic of flowers, plants, herbs, wood, stones, and crystals to any practice.

Build a practice around the energy and intention of the natural world with this indispensable green magic book.

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Green Witchcraft: A Practical Guide to Discovering the Magic of Plants, Herbs, Crystals, and Beyond

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Amazon.com: Green Witchcraft: A Practical Guide to Discovering the Magic of Plants, Herbs, Crystals, and Beyond eBook : Vanderbeck, Paige: Books

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Classic coming of age novel:  Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen was a great Audible as well.

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Classic coming of age novel:  Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen was a great Audible as well.

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I also love this, especially as someone who is a bit too much of a planner, it was a good reminder to slow down and live in the moment.

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Always somewhat nervously punctual, I have now advanced to the point where I prefer to get to the airport a solid three hours early, allowing for a meal, cocktail and some uninterrupted reading time. This has transformed an experience that once induced anxiety into actual leisure. I'm not, as you might infer from this fact, someone who likes to wring as much productivity as I can from each day.

I hate to start by making this all about myself, but "Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals," Oliver Burkeman's new work of almost meta self-help, is - even more than most books - going to be about whoever is reading it at the moment, and in this case that just happened to be me.

How would you spend a week if you knew it were your last? Questions don't get more personal than that. Burkeman says that we're closer to being in that position at all times than it's comfortable to recognize. The book's first sentence, which gets repeated for emphasis on the last page, is: "The average human life span is absurdly, terrifyingly, insultingly short." (About 4,000 weeks, on average; thus the title.)

For more than a decade, Burkeman, a British journalist based in New York, wrote a regular series for The Guardian called This Column Will Change Your Life, in which he explored "routes to mental well-being," both earnestly and skeptically. A previous book of his was called "The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking."

Burkeman's work could sit comfortably on a shelf next to the books published by Alain de Botton's School of Life, literary-flavored advice on love, friendship, work and other conundrums. Burkeman cites everyone from Nietzsche and Seneca to Rod Stewart and Danielle Steel to make his points.

His primary one is to stop trying so hard. "Nobody in the history of humanity has ever achieved 'work-life balance,' whatever that might be," he writes, "and you certainly won't get there by copying the 'six things successful people do before 7 a.m.'"

Besides, getting more done is just a way of inviting ... more to do. "Every time you reply to an email, there's a good chance of provoking a reply to that email, which itself may require another reply, and so on and so on, until the heat death of the universe."

Oliver Burkeman, whose new book is "Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals."

In place of checklists of things to do before you're fully awake or paths for getting to inbox zero, Burkeman offers some history lessons, a bit of Buddhist philosophy here and there, and a few actual tips. ("The real measure of any time management technique is whether or not it helps you neglect the right things.")

Early in the book, we revisit the era of medieval farmers, who, Burkeman says, didn't even think of or experience time as "an abstract entity - as a thing." Nature and necessity provided a rhythm for days and tasks, and they simply followed that rhythm. But then somewhere along the line (hashtag capitalism?) "time became a thing that you used," a resource that you could feel bad about mishandling. Burkeman wants to "prompt us to question the very idea that time is something you use in the first place." (He enjoys italics.)

One of the ways to do this is to exercise a Buddhist-like detachment and acceptance. "The world is already broken," Burkeman writes, and so is the possibility of your making the most of your time. In the face of the tyranny of choice, you can find freedom (and presumably stress relief) in understanding that "you're guaranteed to miss out on almost every experience the world has to offer."

He lost me a little when he wrote about time being a "network good," something that's best optimized among groups of people in order to "socialize, go on dates, raise children, launch businesses, build political movements, make technological advances" - but that's only because, aside from socializing, I don't really want to do any of those things.

No contemporary guide to time management can ignore the need to ignore our phones, and Burkeman pauses to acknowledge the attention plague. After describing his use of Twitter, he says he's "now in recovery." (In addition to Twitter, I've spent a not insignificant portion of the prime of my life playing various anagram games on my phone. You?)

In the end, some of Burkeman's advice ("focus on one big project at a time," "keep a 'done list'") seems disappointingly traditional, given how good he is at puncturing his genre's pieties. As another example, he is withering on one page about the mindfulness mandate to "be here now." ("It's like trying too hard to fall asleep, and therefore failing.") Then, near the book's end, he counsels us to "pay more attention to every moment, however mundane."

But part of the pleasure of reading Burkeman is that you assume he would happily point out these same reversals and contradictions. His tone is not confident or hectoring; he's in the same leaky boat we're in, just trying to stop things up where he can.

Despite my airport habits, there are things I want to accomplish in this life. And some of Burkeman's modest suggestions about how to prioritize things, without simply adding stress about prioritizing things to life, seem well worth trying. And in addition to whatever help it might offer, "Four Thousand Weeks" is also just good company; it addresses large, even existential, issues with a sense of humor and an even-keeled perspective. I found that reading it - Burkeman might balk at this particular way of describing it - was a good use of my time.

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Life Is Short. What Are You Going to Do About That?

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Books of The Times When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Always somewhat nervously punctual, I have now advanced to the point where I prefer to get to the airport a solid three hours early, allowing for a meal, cocktail and some uninterrupted reading time.

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Stanley Tucci reading his book "Taste" on Audible is great if you're interested in good cooking, and he is a good storyteller born in 1960 --- so some fun childhood references, etc.

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Stanley Tucci reading his book "Taste" on Audible is great if you're interested in good cooking, and he is a good storyteller born in 1960 --- so some fun childhood references, etc.

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The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman is a VTDigger podcast that features in-depth interviews on local and national issues with politicians, activists, artists, changemakers and citizens who are making a difference. The Vermont Conversation also airs live on Wednesdays at 1 on WDEV/Radio Vermont.

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Tom Hanks reading "The Dutch House" on Audible is terrific.

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Tom Hanks reading "The Dutch House" on Audible is terrific.

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The Rose Code by Kate Quinn. About women in WW2 at Bletchley Park.

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The Rose Code by Kate Quinn. About women in WW2 at Bletchley Park.

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Reading this now - a gift for Christmas. Very good!

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My Mother’s Daughter: A Memoir of Struggle and Triumph

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My Mother’s Daughter: A Memoir of Struggle and Triumph [Felicien, Perdita] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. My Mother’s Daughter: A Memoir of Struggle and Triumph

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I'm obsessed with this book and recommend it to anyone, especially anyone with kids. It's a graphic novel with short vignettes, and all about exploring identity, friendship, and self-acceptance related to so many things - sexuality, neurodiversity, family structure. It's so so good!

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Buy books online and find book series such as The Cardboard Kingdom written by Chad Sell from PenguinRandomHouse.com

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I like this kind of thing to balance out my heavier reading. It was funny and (sexy). Lol. LGBTQIA protagonists, etc.

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Original cover edition of ASIN B07J4LPZRN here. First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince this side of the Atlantic...

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Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize
New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, and Amazon Best Book of the Year Now Available in Paperback
The Overstory, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of-and paean to-the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers's twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours-vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

Praise for The Overstory by Richard Powers

"Autumn makes me think of leaves, which makes me think of trees, which makes me think of The Overstory, the best novel ever written about trees, and really, just one of the best novels, period." -Ann Patchett

"Monumental... The Overstory accomplishes what few living writers from either camp, art or science, could attempt. Using the tools of the story, he pulls readers heart-first into a perspective so much longer-lived and more subtly developed than the human purview that we gain glimpses of a vast, primordial sensibility, while watching our own kind get whittled down to size...A gigantic fable of genuine truths." -Barbara Kingsolver, New York Times Book Review (cover review)

"Remarkable...This ambitious novel soars up through the canopy of American literature and remakes the landscape of environmental fiction." -Ron Charles, Washington Post

"A big, ambitious epic...Powers juggles the personal dramas of his far-flung cast with vigor and clarity. The human elements of the book-the arcs his characters follow over the decades from crusading passion to muddled regret and a sense of failure-are thoroughly compelling. So are the extra-human elements, thanks to the extraordinary imaginative flights of Powers's prose, which persuades you on the very first page that you're hearing the voices of trees as they chide our species." -Michael Upchurch, Boston Globe

"A rousing, full-throated hymn to Nature's grandeur." -Dan Cryer, San Francisco Chronicle

"An extraordinary novel...An astonishing performance...There is something exhilarating, too, in reading a novel whose context is wider than human life. The Overstory leaves you with a slightly adjusted frame of reference...What was happening to his characters passed into my conscience, like alcohol into the bloodstream, and left a feeling behind of grief or guilt, even after I put it down." -Benjamin Markovits, The Guardian

"[Powers is] brilliant on the strange idea of 'plant personhood...' opening our eyes to the wondrous things just above our line of sight. Memorable chapters unfold [with] many unforgettable images in a novel devoted to 'reviving that dead metaphor at the heart of the word bewilderment.'" -Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal

"Richard Powers' 12th novel is a rare specimen: a Great American Eco-Novel." -Financial Times

"This book is beyond special. Richard Powers manages to turn trees into vivid and engaging characters, something that indigenous people have done for eons but that modern literature has rarely if ever even attempted. It's not just a completely absorbing, even overwhelming book; it's a kind of breakthrough in the ways we think about and understand the world around us, at a moment when that is desperately needed." -Bill McKibben

" The Overstory is a visionary, accessible legend for the planet that owns us, its exaltation and its peril, a remarkable achievement by a great writer." -Thomas McGuane

" The Overstory is a visionary, accessible legend for the planet that owns us, its exaltation and its peril, a remarkable achievement by a great writer." -Tim Martin, Telegraph (UK)

"A colleague of mine once claimed that a critic's opinions are worth less than his or her ability to convey what a book is like. If that's true, never mind that I believe Richard Powers' 12th novel to be a masterwork sculpted from sheer awe. Instead, know that reading The Overstory will convince you that we walk among gods every time we enter a forest." -Adam Morgan, Minneapolis Star Tribune

"The time is ripe for a big novel that tells us as much about trees as Moby-Dick does about whales... The Overstory is that novel and it is very nearly a masterpiece...On almost every page of The Overstory you will find sentences that combine precision and vision." -The Times (London)

"An immense and intense homage to the arboreal world (its biological sophistication, its rich panoply of environmental benefits), the book is alive with riveting data, cogent reasoning and urgent argument. Pages that take you into menaced remnants of primeval forest or contemplate singularly splendid or fascinating trees teem with knowledge and gleam with aesthetic appeal." -The Sunday Times (UK)

"Richard Powers's novel will complicate the way you think about the environment, activism, our gossamer connection with each other and nature...[I] cannot recommend The Overstory enough." -Bradford Morrow

"A masterpiece of operatic proportions...A magnificent achievement." -Kirkus (starred review)

"A magnificent saga...Powers's sylvan tour de force is alive with gorgeous descriptions; continually surprising, often heartbreaking characters; complex suspense; unflinching scrutiny of pain; celebration of creativity and connection; and informed and expressive awe over the planet's life force and its countless and miraculous manifestations...profound and symphonic." -Booklist (starred review)

"A deep meditation on the irreparable psychic damage that manifests in our unmitigated separation from nature." -Library Journal (starred review)

"Vast, magnificent, and disturbing...An array of human temperaments and predicaments as manifold as Charles Dickens' or Leo Tolstoy's...I have never read anything so pessimistic and yet so hopeful." -BookPage

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Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, and Amazon Best Book of the Year Now Available in Paperback The Overstory, winner of the Pulitzer, Read More

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Indian Giver

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A book I've seen all over social media... (hoping to read soon)!

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A book I've seen all over social media... (hoping to read soon)!

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4 episodes now ( first episode date: 2018)

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Napoleon-Andrew Roberts

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just watched this on HBO+ ... interesting

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All books by Louise Penny but start at the beginning of the series. 

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All books by Louise Penny but start at the beginning of the series. 

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Keeping me laughing through the insanity of life!

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Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and you too!

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Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and you too! [Handler, Chelsea] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and you too!

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Anna P has been doing crosswords and playing words with friends on the phone before bed instead of reading lately. If you also play words with friends, feel free to add me: HoppySuzieQ 

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Anna P has been doing crosswords and playing words with friends on the phone before bed instead of reading lately. If you also play words with friends, feel free to add me: HoppySuzieQ 

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Chicken Noodle Soup for the Soul: Making Me Time!

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Chicken Noodle Soup for the Soul: Making Me Time!

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"Me time" is the cure for what ails you. You know you need it. Here's how to take care of yourself so that you can be the very best version of you!

Do you ever say that you'll take care of yourself after you finish your to-do list? The personal, revealing stories in this book will convince you to put yourself at the top of that list. Self-care and life balance are what we all neglect most.

These 101 true stories from people who turned their lives around will show you how to take care of your physical and mental health. You'll be inspired by people who have taken back control of their lives and carved out that all-important "me time," whether that means exercising, reading, meditating, seeing friends, or communing with nature.

Whatever your psyche needs is your form of "me time" and that's something that you deserve. There are many approaches, and at least one of them is bound to work for you. In these pages, you'll read about men and women who:

Put an hour for themselves on their daily to-do lists

Pursued long-delayed sports, hobbies, or volunteer work

Discovered themselves through travel, fitness, or new careers

Learned to ask for help instead of doing it all

Started treating themselves as well as they would treat a guest

Stopped seeing the people who weren't making them happy

Rediscovered the benefits of exercising and being outside in nature

Created their own personal spaces in their homes or outdoors

Decluttered their calendars or their homes-and felt liberated

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Making Me Time: 101 Stories About Self-Care and Balance

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Making Me Time: 101 Stories About Self-Care and Balance [Newmark, Amy] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Making Me Time: 101 Stories About Self-Care and Balance

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Read both!! There are multiple books written about other historical events (off the top of my head, I can think of at least 5 books about prisoners inRead both!! There are multiple books written about other historical events (off the top of my head, I can think of at least 5 books about prisoners in Auschwitz) each with their own unique perspective. Richardson is actually from Kentucky and Moyes is from the UK, so they will bring their own background to the story. We can never have too many books that enlighten us about the past! Leighellen Landskov...more (less)

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Melissa ~ Bantering Books (On Reviewing Hiatus)

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Lindsay - Traveling Sisters Book Reviews

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Read both!! There are multiple books written about other historical events (off the top of my head, I can think of at least 5 books about prisoners inRead both!! There are multiple books written about other historical events (off the top of my head, I can think of at least 5 books about prisoners in Auschwitz) each with their own unique perspective.

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Books by Paul Doiron. Maine game warder investigator.

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Books by Paul Doiron. Maine game warder investigator.

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Amazing brain science behind it all.

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by Suzanne Feldman

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A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Bestseller Named a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary Hub As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass , Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise" (Elizabeth Gilbert).

Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings―asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass―offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

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Amazon.com: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants: 9781571313560: Kimmerer, Robin Wall: Books