Robin Wall Kimmerer is Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF). She is the author of numerous scientific articles, the book Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (2003), and her latest publication Braiding Sweetgrass (Milkweed Editions 2014) has received praise from authors such as Jane Goodall and Elizabeth Gilbert. She is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, and combines her heritage with her scientific and environmental passions.
Robin Kimmerer
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Council of the Pecans
Heat waves shimmer above the grasses, the air heavy and white and ringing with the buzz of cicadas. The boys have been shoeless all summer long, but even so the dry Continue reading
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Speaking of Nature
The words we choose reveal a lot about how we think about the natural world. Continue reading
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The Rights of the Land
Before first light we board a bus and at last light we return, just as the October hills of central New York shade to burgundy and the lights come on in Continue reading