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Braiding Sweetgrass
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- De: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Narrado por: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Duración: 16 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 11,483
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 9,964
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 9,938
As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally, Words
- De Donovan P Malley en 06-30-19
- Braiding Sweetgrass
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- De: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Narrado por: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Excellent
Revisado: 11-08-22
This was a book chosen by my bookclub. I tried to start reading it, but knew that I wouldn't have time, so I got the audiobook to listen on my commute, and while working in the field. I prefer to not listen to books/music/etc. while working outside, but this one worked.
I find the book better seen as a collection of essays, and that it's ok to take a break. It gets to be a bit much chapter after chapter--it's very good, with only a few of the chapters on the weaker side.
I very much enjoyed that the author was the narrator--it would have been profoundly inappropriate for somebody else to narrate. The pace was a bit slow, so I found upping the speed to 1.25x improved the pace while maintaining the tone.
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Lives of Weeds
- Opportunism, Resistance, Folly
- De: John Cardina
- Narrado por: Mike Lenz
- Duración: 10 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 21
Lives of Weeds explores the tangled history of weeds and their relationship to humans. Through eight interwoven stories, John Cardina offers a fresh perspective on how these tenacious plants came about, why they are both inevitable and essential, and how their ecological success is ensured by determined efforts to eradicate them. Linking botany, history, ecology, and evolutionary biology to the social dimensions of humanity's ancient struggle with feral flora, Cardina shows how weeds have shaped - and are shaped by - the way we live in the natural world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Review from a weed professional
- De TSP en 11-08-22
- Lives of Weeds
- Opportunism, Resistance, Folly
- De: John Cardina
- Narrado por: Mike Lenz
Review from a weed professional
Revisado: 11-08-22
I got this audiobook because I am also a weed professional and am always seeking out relevant books.
Few of the weeds described in this book are problematic where I work, but the information is important regardless. The progression of plant to weed is profoundly interesting. The problem of relying on single herbicides for too long to deal with a problem is well covered.
The performance is disappointing. The narrator's voice is fine, but reads a bit off tempo or robotic--notably with occasional pauses, Christopher Walden-like. It sounds like the narrator is reading the work for the first time and not is not very fluid. Additionally, some fairly important words are very obviously mispronounced... such as Glyphosate. Since I'm listening to the book, there are other things that seem off... such as "private hedge" which I assume from context has to be "privet hedge." I don't know, maybe I'm easily frustrated, but a work about weeds should have the pronunciation of herbicides right.
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What Your Food Ate
- How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health
- De: David R. Montgomery, Anne Biklé
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 15 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 56
David R. Montgomery and Anne Bikle take us far beyond the well-worn adage to deliver a new truth: the roots of good health start on farms. What Your Food Ate marshals evidence from recent and forgotten science to illustrate how the health of the soil ripples through to that of crops, livestock, and ultimately us. Navigating discoveries and epiphanies about the world beneath our feet, they reveal why regenerative farming practices hold the key to healing sick soil and untapped potential for improving human health.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I might have to read rather than listening
- De Kindle Customer en 09-08-22
- What Your Food Ate
- How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health
- De: David R. Montgomery, Anne Biklé
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
Perhaps a bit of preaching to the choir
Revisado: 11-08-22
This is an excellent book, with lots and lots of support for the claims made. So much support, that after days of listening on my commute to work, I would think, "yes, I know, I know, you've been talking at me for weeks about this now..." I know that's not really a helpful review for a book with so much important information.
The performance is problematic for me. The narrator reads with really great flow and personality, but it is slow and with too much of what I would call mouth noise. I found both the speed and mouth noise problems mostly solved when upping the speed to 1.15x.
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