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Das Buch der promovierten Pflanzenökologin, die als Angehörige der Potawatomi auch traditionell überliefertes Wissen einzubringen versucht, [...] erklärt Laien nicht nur die Biologie und den Nutzen dieser frühen Landpflanzen, vielmehr zeigt es auch auf nahezu spannende Art die gegenseitige Abhängigkeit allen Lebens voneinander; "eine Erzählung über das ineinandergewirkte Schicksal von Moosen, Pilzen und Streifenhörnchentritten", wie es die Autorin selbst ausdrückt. Kimmerer erklärt den Generationenwechsel der Moose ebenso verständlich, wie sie klar zu verstehen gibt, dass ein künstlich angelegter Moosgarten nur ein Faksimile seiner selbst ist, [...]

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Winner of the 2005 John Burroughs Medal Award for Natural History Writing

 

Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.

 

In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how mosses live and how their lives are intertwined with the lives of countless other beings. Kimmerer explains the biology of mosses clearly and artfully, while at the same time reflecting on what these fascinating organisms have to teach us.

 

Drawing on her diverse experiences as a scientist, mother, teacher, and writer of Native American heritage, Kimmerer explains the stories of mosses in scientific terms as well as in the framework of indigenous ways of knowing. In her book, the natural history and cultural relationships of mosses become a powerful metaphor for ways of living in the world.

 

 

About the author

Robin Wall Kimmerer is Distinguished Teaching Professor at the SUNY College of Environmental and Forest Biology and the founding Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. She is the author of the bestselling Braiding Sweetgrass.

 

 

Contents:

Preface: Seeing the World Through Moss-Colored Glasses / The Standing Stones / Learning to See / The Advantages of Being Small: Life in the Boundary Layer / Back to the Pond / Sexual Asymmetry and the Satellite Sisters / An Affinity for Water / Binding Up the Wounds: Mosses in Ecological Succession / In the Forest of the Waterbear / Kickapoo / Choices / A Landscape of Chance / City Mosses / The Web of Reciprocity: Indegenous Uses of Moss / The Red Sneaker / Portrait of Splachnum / The Owner / The Forest Gives Thanks to the Mosses / The Bystander / Straw Into Gold / Suggestions for Further Reading / Index /