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A book about the history and cultural significance of mosses. The speaker described the book as a beautiful book about mosses. The book inspired a novel about a botanist.
She writes books that join new scientific and ancient indigenous knowledge including gathering moss and braiding sweetgrass.
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Episode: Robin Wall Kimmerer — The Intelligence of Plants
A book about the history and cultural significance of mosses. The speaker described the book as a beautiful book about mosses. The book inspired a novel about a botanist.
She writes books that join new scientific and ancient indigenous knowledge including gathering moss and braiding sweetgrass.
Here's something beautiful that you wrote in your book Gathering Moss just as an example.
And I learned that your work with moss inspired Elizabeth Gilbert's novel The Signature of All Things which is about a botanist.
Her books include Gathering Moss, A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, and Braiding Sweetgrass, Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants.
Episode: [Unedited] Robin Wall Kimmerer with Krista Tippett
The book is about the natural and cultural history of mosses. The host mentions a story about rocks and the slow conversation that mosses and rocks have with each other.
Her books include Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses and Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants.
Here's something beautiful that you wrote in your book Gathering Moss, just as an example. The rocks are beyond slow, beyond strong and yet yielding to a soft green breath as powerful as a glacier.
The moss is wearing away their surfaces grain by grain, bringing them slowly back to sand. There is an ancient conversation going on between mosses and rocks, poetry to be sure, about light and shadow and the drift of continents.