Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses - Paperback

Robin Wall Kimmerer braids Indigenous knowledge with bryology. A meditation on what we overlook, grounded in the smallest plants.

Kimmerer is trained as a botanist but thinks like a Potawatomi. She looks at moss through both lenses at once. Moss has no roots, no flowers, no seeds. It propagates by spores so small you can't see them. It grows on things nobody thinks to look at. For most of us, it is background. For Kimmerer, it is a master class in how to attend to what is small and overlooked.

This book sells itself to faculty in environmental studies, ecology, botany, and indigenous studies. It's also read by people who just want to slow down and learn to see their yard differently. Quiet, precise, reverent without being sentimental.

DETAILS
- Paperback
- Botany, bryology, nature writing, indigenous knowledge