A book this rich in metaphor deserves a metaphorical introduction: Braiding Sweetgrass is a deerskin pouch containing a smouldering coal of shkitagen fungus, starter of cheering fires to come.

When Emergence magazine asked “Braiding Sweetgrass ... very much of a piece with “Sweetgrass,” but it’s catching on. Kimmerer wasn’t the first to write a book about our relationship ...