Like a botanist and professor of place ecology, Robin Wall structure Kimmerer has spent a career learning how exactly to ask queries of nature using the tools of research. As a Potawatomi girl, she discovered from elders, family members, and history which the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing collectively to reveal what this means to see human beings as ‘the more youthful brothers of creation.’ As she explores these styles, she circles toward a central discussion: The awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgement and special event of our reciprocal relationship with the world. Once we start to listen for the languages of additional beings, we are able to begin to understand the countless life-giving gifts the globe provides us and learn to present our thanks a lot, our treatment, and our own gifts in return.