[Unedited] Robin Wall Kimmerer with Krista Tippett
b'Few books have been more eagerly passed from hand to hand with delight in these last years than Robin Wall Kimmerer\\u2019s Braiding Sweetgrass. Krista interviewed her in 2015, and it quickly became a much-loved show as her voice was just rising in common life. Robin is a botanist and also a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She\\u2019s written, \\u201cScience polishes the gift of seeing, Indigenous traditions work with gifts of listening and language.\\u201d An expert in moss \\u2014 a bryologist \\u2014 she describes mosses as the \\u201ccoral reefs of the forest.\\u201d Robin Wall Kimmerer opens a sense of wonder and humility for the intelligence in all kinds of life we are used to naming and imagining as inanimate.'