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Title: Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
ISBN: 0870714996
Author:
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Publicate Date: 2003-03
Publish: 2003-03
List Price: $18.95
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: Paperback
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1: Gathering Moss is Expanding
This is a great book about a smaller life form that has fundamental ramifications for ecology. The author is brillant at combining scientific fact with Native American awareness of the world around us and weaves together the significance of the inter-relationships of life, culture and the natural environment. We are introduced to the primary and lush enviroment of mosses in this well written and easily accessible work.
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2: Not just a moss book!
This book is a philosophy treatise in disguise. Beware all who enter here! You'll not only get a knowledge of mosses and lichens, but a lot more! I couldn't put it down! Thanks, RWK!
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3: Of a different order
Since, I've been recommending this book to all my friends with botanical interests ever since I read it two months ago, I might as well try to sing its praises to a broader public. I found it to be a book of a different order from most other nature books I've read. I'm not talking about comparative rankings here, though there is much to praise, but about its uniqueness. The only book in my acquaintance that I'm tempted to compare it to (though with a deeply respectful nod to the books of Lewis Thomas) is Aldo Leopold's "A Sand County Almanac". Both Leopold and Kimmerer have created essays with seemingly effortless grace and formal purpose, and both leave the reader with an enduring impression of someone writing who is, first and foremost, not a writer or a scientist or an environmental moralist, but, plainly and sincerely, a human being living and learning from and cherishing earth's nonhuman creatures insofar as possible on their own terms. We are most and best human when living in such caring wonder.
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4: Birthday gift
Book came in time for birthday, in spite of bad weather and recipient was delighted.
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5: Excellent Reading
I bought this book because the author was coming to the environmental center I volunteer for. It is a wonderful book and the woman who wrote it is so deserving of our respect and praise. To quote someone who says it all, Janisse Ray said "something I took for granted has come alive, because I have been given its story. After reading this book, I took a magnifying glass outside and pored over the tree trunks. I have seen Robin Kimmerer's miniature landscape for myself. Yet, this is so much more than a book about mosses. This is a Native American woman speaking. This is a mother's story. This is a science revealed through human psyche. Robin Kimmerer is a scientist who combines empiricism with all other forms of knowing. Hers is a spectacularly different view of the world and her voice needs to be heard."
I heartily recommend this book.
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