A review by laurareads87
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Simultaneously beautiful to read and fantastically informative.  Having read Dr. Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass last year I was happy to pick up her earlier book on mosses.  By comparison, this book I would describe as having more emphasis on natural history and scientific information about its subject matter and less memoir, though like Braiding Sweetgrass this book integrates multiple ways of knowing seamlessly -- I learned a lot about mosses reading this book and that makes me very happy given that moss is, well, everywhere, and in my experience books on the plant life of a particular region tend to give little relatively attention to these smallest of flora.  
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