![]() ![]() ![]() It’s the end of March and, observing the new social distancing protocol, we’re speaking over Zoom – Kimmerer, from her home office outside Syracuse, New York me from shuttered South Williamsburg in Brooklyn, where the constant wail of sirens are a sobering reminder of the pandemic. ![]() All the ways that they live I just feel are really poignant teachings for us right now.” “What is it that has enabled them to persist for 350m years, through every kind of catastrophe, every climate change that’s ever happened on this planet, and what might we learn from that?” She lists the lessons “of being small, of giving more than you take, of working with natural law, sticking together. She grins as if thinking of a dogged old friend or mentor. Her first book, published in 2003, was the natural and cultural history book Gathering Moss. “T his is a time to take a lesson from mosses,” says Robin Wall Kimmerer, celebrated writer and botanist. ![]()
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