Title: Gathering Moss Pdf A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Author: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Published Date: 2003
Page: 168
"Yet this is so much more than a book about mosses. This is a Native American woman speaking. This is a mother's story. This is science revealed through the human psyche. Robin Kimmerer is a scientist who combines empiricism with all other forms of knowing. Hers is a spectacularly different view of the world, and her true voice needs to be heard." Something I took for granted suddenly has come alive, because I have been given its story. After reading this book, I took a magnifying glass outside and pored over tree trunks. I have seen Robin Kimmerer's miniature landscape for myself. Yet, this is so much more than a book about mosses. This is a Native American woman speaking. This is a mother's story. This is science revealed through the human psyche. Robin Kimmerer is a scientist who combines empiricism with all other forms of knowing. Hers is a spectacularly different view of the world, and her true voice needs to be heard.
Robin Wall Kimmerer's book is not an identification guide, nor is it a scientific treatise. Rather, it is a series of linked personal essays that will lead general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how mosses live and how their lives are intertwined with the lives of countless other beings, from salmon and hummingbirds to redwoods and rednecks. Kimmerer clearly and artfully explains the biology of mosses, while at the same time reflecting on what these fascinating organisms have to teach us.
Drawing on her diverse experiences as a scientist, mother, teacher, and writer of Native American heritage, Kimmerer explains the stories of mosses in scientific terms as well as in the framework of indigenous ways of knowing. In her book, the natural history and cultural relationships of mosses become a powerful metaphor for ways of living in the world.
Gathering Moss will appeal to a wide range of readers, from bryologists to those interested in natural history and the environment, Native Americans, and contemporary nature and science writing.
The Old Ones LOVE this author. She has such a personal way of helping us relate to plants. Grounding in science, wrapped in her cultural wisdom moss becomes so much more than a ground cover!Astonishingly good writing I loved this book so much that I bought three more copies to send to friends. It's extremely good writing about a little known area of science and nature, told with a native american sensibility. I need to find out what else this remarkable woman has written.scientific poetry, poetic science! This book is rapidly climbing to the top of my favorite books of all time. For one thing, Kimmerer has a gift with language. She is both precise and poetic in her descriptions of mosses, her chosen field of study. Yet she is never prosaic, as she allows, thanks to her Native American background, for other dimensions of her subject to emerge. In these elegant essays, she touches on the role of moss in the evolution of plants, the adaptation of moss to city life, the sex life of mosses, and the traditional uses of moss by indigenous people. Kimmerer writes: “Our stories from the oldest days tell about the time when all beings shared a common language—thrushes, trees, mosses, and humans. But that language has been long forgotten. So we learn each other’s stories by looking, by watching each other’s way of living. I want to tell the mosses’ story, since their voices are little heard and we have much to learn from them. They have messages of consequence that need to be heard, the perspectives of species other than our own. “ Her great gift is that she can tell the story of moss both as a scientist and a poet.
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