Focusing on the human relationship with plants, the author uses botany to explore four basic human desires--sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control--through portraits of four plants that embody them: the apple, tulip, marijuana, and potato.

"En esta recopilación de historias escritas conjuntamente entre la autora e individuos del mundo vegetal, Monica Gagliano revela el papel dinámico que las plantas desempeñan en el mundo y nos anima a imaginarlas como seres con subjetividad, consciencia y volición, capaces de transmitir sus propias voces y perspectivas. El libro refleja encuentros personales de la autora con plantas, chamanes, ancianos indígenas y místicos de todo el mundo, e...

"An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. 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,...

Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things: from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen: provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass . Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith, this new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth's oldest teachers: the plants around...