I want to share with you an excerpt from the book Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer:
“The rocks are beyond slow, beyond strong, and yet yielding to a soft green breath as powerful as a glacier, the mosses wearing away their surfaces, grain by grain bringing them slowly back to sand. There is an ancient conversation going on between mosses and rocks, poetry to be sure. About light and shadow and the drift of continents. This is what has been called the ‘dialectic of moss on stone—an interface of immensity and minuteness, of past and present, softness and hardness, stillness and vibrancy, yin and yang’ (Schenk). The material and the spiritual live together here.”
Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. 1st ed, Oregon State University Press, 2003.
Schenk, George. Moss Gardening: Including Lichens, Liverworts, and Other Miniatures. Timber Press, 1999.
