Gathering Moss

Grounding, calming, and quietly revolutionary. – Robert MacFarlaneI give daily thanks for Robin Wall Kimmerer for being a font of endless knowledge, both mental and spiritual. – Richard PowersGathering Moss is fantastic and offers an extraordinary point of view on the natural world – Natalie PortmanSoulful, accessible… informed by both western science and indigenous teachings alike … Kimmerer blends, with deep attentiveness and musicality, science and personal insights to tell the overlooked story of the planet’s oldest plants * Guardian *Beneath your feet, barely visible to the eye, is another world: a rainforest in miniature … Read Kimmerer’s book and you’re unlikely ever again to waste precious gardening time scraping moss from paving stones. – Rachel Cooke * Observer *Beautiful … Her scientific training and knowledge of plants from her Potawatomi heritage create a unique lens, teaching us how to look and watch… Reading this has made me stop to wondrously admire any patch of moss I come across. * Quietus *

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Braiding Sweetgrass- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants as well as Gathering Moss- A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. Kimmerer is a 2022 MacArthur Fellow. She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.