The Intelligence of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer with Krista Tippett

Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer brings experimental science, Potawatomi language, gratitude, and relationship with plants into one lucid conversation.

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STARTING FRAMEPotawatomi plant ecology and Indigenous knowledge

EXPLORESScience, History & Faith

ENGAGEMENT EFFORTApproachable

REVIEW DEPTHL2 · Inner Atlas Reviewed

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You want a grounded example of scientific and Indigenous ways of knowing meeting without either being reduced to the other.

Kimmerer speaks from her own Potawatomi identity and scientific vocation; she does not claim to represent all Indigenous knowledge systems.