I am drawn to literature that cements humans as a part of nature and stories than use the natural world to anchor our lived experiences, to explore what it means to be human, to help to understand ourselves as a part of the ecosystem [she writes at the Guardian]. In my own writing, I explore my changing relationship with the sea, how nature has both hurt and healed my body and mind, and how wild creatures have provided waypoints along a physical and emotional navigation.Stowe's new book is Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea.
At the Guardian she tagged ten books that "explore how nature can help us understand the human experiences of addiction, illness, loss, loneliness and allow us to find solace, sanctuary, connection and subtle wisdom in the wild." One title on the list:
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererRead about the other entries on the list.
A professor, a botanist, a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, a mother. Kimmerer draws on her scientific background and Indigenous wisdom to teach us how to listen to the natural world, and reinforce our place in it, as part of a whole. The author has used all of herself, her background, her training, to deliver a book that is ecologically complete, vital in its message, its intelligence, its argument, its celebration.
Braiding Sweetgrass is among Sarah Thomas's top ten nature memoirs.
--Marshal Zeringue
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