Active member of Potawatomi nation. Kimmerer, a leading researcher in the field of biology, understands the delicate state of our world. She senses and relates to the world through a way of knowing far older than any science. Kimmerer intertwines the analytic and the emotional, the scientific and the cultural to ultimately reveal a path toward healing the rift that grows between people and nature. The woven essays that construct this book bring people back into conversation with all that is green an growing; a universe that never stopped speaking to us even when we forgot how to listen.-Publisher