Moss, climate, and deep time
This recent piece by Robin Wall Kimmerer takes a deep look at a forgotten part of life on Earth. She reminds us that “the laws of nature will bring us to our knees. And then perhaps we will see the mosses.”
Mosses, I think, are like time made visible. They create a kind of botanical forgetting. Shoot by tiny shoot, the past is obscured in green. That’s why we have stories, so we can remember.
Robin Wall Kimmerer