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MR. LINKY
MY BOOK BEGINNING
Barefoot, I've walked this path by night for nearly twenty years, most of my life it seems, the earth pressing up against the arch of my foot.
-- Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer (OSU Press), winner of the John Burroughs Medal Award for Natural History Writing.
Gathering Moss is a series of personal essays by scientist Robin Wall Kimmerer, who spent years studying mosses all over the world. Drawing as much on her Native American heritage and experiences as a mother as on science, Kimmerer explains how mosses live and uses the history and interconnectedness of moss as a metaphor for living in the world.
I want to use more moss in my own garden, so am reading this for practical advice as well as inspiration. So far, it reminds me a lot of Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, but without so many bugs.
