How long does it take to read Braiding Sweetgrass?
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer takes about 7 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 56 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2013. 433 pages, about 119,075 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 14 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these lenses of knowledge together to show that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings are we capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learning to give our own gifts in return.
Subjects: Botany, Ecology, Potawatomi Indians, Indian philosophy, Philosophy of nature, Human-plant relationships
