![]() Doors to Riley Auditorium open at 4:30p.Kimmerer’s public lecture available through April 13 HERE. Seating is not ticketed, but your RSVP will help us to plan for the reception, live stream overflow seating, and the book signing. ![]() The language scientists speak, however precise, is based on a profound error in grammar, an omission, a grave loss in translation from the native languages of these shores.” -“The Grammar of Animacy,” Braiding Sweetgrass, pp. Science can be a language of distance which reduces a being to its working parts it is a language of objects. But beneath the richness of its vocabulary and its descriptive power, something is missing, the same something that swells around you and in you when you listen to the world. To name and describe you must first see, and science polishes the gift of seeing…. ![]() I did learn another language in science, though, one of careful observation, an intimate vocabulary that names each little part. A tongue that should not, by the way, be mistaken for the language of plants. I think now that it was a longing to comprehend this language I hear in the woods that led me to science, to learn over the years to speak fluent botany. “ Listening in wild places, we are audience to conversations in a language not our own. ![]()
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