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Robin Wall Kimmerer

Gathering Moss

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  • Nast Huertahas quoted5 months ago
    The near-nothingness of Schistostega erupts in a shower of sparkles, like green glitter spilled on the rug at Christmas.
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    Here is every single thing I need. And it is precious little: rain on the outside, fire on the inside. And soup. And the rest is luxury. Especially curtains.
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    Why would a person hang curtains in the wilderness? To shut out starlight on a black, black night? To prevent the looking in by a thousand pinpoint stars?
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    I hold tight to the vision that someday soon we will find the courage of self-restraint, the humility to live like mosses.
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    We turn down a new logging road, past the gate and warning signs. Here there is no concealing screen between you and the land. We nearly have to turn back. I rationalize my nausea as vertigo from the precipitous roads, the cold sweat as anxiety about oncoming log trucks. But I knew it was fear and the presence of violence around every turn. And grief, grief that rises up from the stumps and soaks into our skin.
  • Nast Huertahas quoted5 months ago
    My task was to make diagnoses and write the prescriptions. Which could safely be moved to the house and which should be abandoned? I thought of the doctors consigned to meet the slave ships at the shore.
  • Nast Huertahas quoted6 months ago
    The artistry rivaled any piece we had seen in the gallery and yet it struck the wrong note; the collection was only an illusion of nature.
  • Nast Huertahas quoted6 months ago
    Commercial peat is mined from bogs that have been drained, some by nature, most by design. My garden and I are complicit in that enterprise and it troubles me. I prefer a bog wet and squishy between my toes.
  • Nast Huertahas quoted6 months ago
    As far as I know, there is no special ceremony for mosses. Maybe it’s more fitting to honor these small everyday plants in small everyday ways.
  • Nast Huertahas quoted6 months ago
    Yurok women describe a time of meditation and speak of special mountain pools where only moontime women were permitted to bathe.
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