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Gathering Moss was Robin Wall Kimmerer's first book. She delves into the science and ecological importance of earth's oldest plants; a species that has been around for 350 million years.
“What’s being revealed to me from readers is a really deep longing for connection with nature,� Kimmerer says, referencing Edward O Wilson’s notion of biophilia, our innate love for living things. “It’s as if people remember in some kind of early, ancestral place within them. They’re remembering what it might be like to live somewhere you felt companionship with the living world, not estrangement. Though the flip side to loving the world so much,� she points out, citing the influential conservationist Aldo Leopold, is that to have an ecological education is to “live alone in a world of wounds�.
Guardian staff reporter. (2020, May 23). Robin Wall Kimmerer: “People can’t understand the world as a gift unless someone shows them how.� The Guardian; The Guardian.
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