"Hold out your hands and let me lay upon them a sheaf of freshly picked sweetgrass, loose and flowing, like newly washed hair. Golden green and glossy above, the stems are banded with purple and white where they meet the ground. Hold the bundle up to your nose. Find the fragrance of honeyed vanilla over the scent of river water and black earth and you understand its scientific name: Hierochloe odorata, meaning the fragrant, holy grass. In our language it is called wiingaashk, the sweet-smelling hair of Mother Earth. Breathe it in and you start to remember things you didn’t know you’d forgotten."
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Robin Wall Kimmerer, : Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants |date=16 September 2013 |publisher=Milkweed Editions |isbn=978-1-57131-871-8 |page=IX}}
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