Book · 2013 · Botany
Braiding Sweetgrass
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I love this book Braiding Sweetgrass.
What they say about it
- Praise as an influential book“most beloved and popular books”2
The best things said about it
Braiding Sweetgrass is one of the most beloved and popular books of the last decade.
Steve Levitt People I (Mostly) Admire · May 2025 Robin's book, Braiding Sweetg Grass, is one of the best-selling and most influential non-fiction books of the last decade.
Steve Levitt People I (Mostly) Admire · Jun 2025 Your book Braiding Sweetgrass has had just an incredible social impact.
Steve Levitt People I (Mostly) Admire · Jun 2025 And actually one of my big Inspirations Robin W Kimmer who wrote braiding sweet grass you know she's poaty and she says we can all become indigenous to the land no matter our no matter if we're direct descendants of colonizers and settlers we we can all become indigenous to a land.
Where and when it comes up
Most mentions, by podcast
4 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer is a renowned exploration of botany, Indigenous wisdom, and humanity's reciprocal relationship with the natural world. Adam Aleksic recommended the book on Modern Wisdom to illustrate unique linguistic expressions, noting the Potawatomi expression for a Saturday. Steve Levitt featured Kimmerer on People I (Mostly) Admire, praising her work as one of the most beloved, bestselling, and influential nonfiction books of the decade, highlighting its incredible social impact and New York Times bestseller status since 2020. Similarly, Robin Greenfield cited the book on The Rich Roll Podcast as a major personal inspiration, emphasizing Kimmerer's botanical perspective that anyone can become indigenous to the land regardless of ancestry. On Behind the Bastards, Andrew Sage referenced the text to explain Indigenous understandings of place, recounting the Hodinohsyoni mythology of Skywoman as an immigrant from the heavens who became indigenous by listening to the land, while also detailing the generational gift economies cultivated by groups like the Potawatomi. Speakers consistently underscored the book's profound capacity to reshape how modern society perceives and interacts with the living earth.
Every mention
Steve Levitt And in two weeks, we're back with a brand new episode featuring Robin Wall Kimmerer. She's a botonist whose… 3
“Robin's book, Braiding Sweetg Grass, is one of the best-selling and most influential non-fiction books of the last decade.”
“Your book Braiding Sweetgrass has had just an incredible social impact. It entered the New York Times bestseller list in 2020”
“And in two weeks, we're back with a brand new episode featuring Robin Wall Kimmerer. She's a botonist whose book Braiding Sweetgrass is one of the most beloved and popular books of the last decade.”
Adam Aleksic I love this book Braiding Sweetgrass. In it there's the podawatami expression to be a Saturday. 1
“I love this book Braiding Sweetgrass. In it there's the podawatami expression to be a Saturday.”
Andrew Sage According to Hodonosini mythology as recounted by Robin Wal Kimmera in Braden Sweetgrass, the mother goddes… 2
“According to Hodonosini mythology as recounted by Robin Wal Kimmera in Braden Sweetgrass, the mother goddess Skywoman came to the land as an immigrant from the heavens but became indigenous by listening to the land”
“Over the course of braid and sweetgrass, Robin Wal Kimra highlights the reciprocal relationship with the earth that many indigenous groups including her pottomy culture have cultivated over generations.”
Robin Greenfield and actually one of my big Inspirations Robin W Kimmer who wrote braiding sweet grass you know she's poaty… 1
“and actually one of my big Inspirations Robin W Kimmer who wrote braiding sweet grass you know she's poaty and she says we can all become indigenous to the land no matter our no matter if we're direct descendants of colonizers and settlers we we can all become indigenous to a land”
Other mentions (2: passing, ad reads, own books)
“And that was very much the motivation behind writing breeding sweetgrass whose subtitle is indigenous wisdom scientific knowledge and the teaching of plants.”
“Robin wall Kimmerer which maybe is a name that people did not know before 2020 when braiding sweet grass indigenous wisdom scientific knowledge and the teaching of plants became a pandemic phenomenon”