Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

Table of Contents

Table of Contents  Preface: Seeing the World Through Moss-Colored Glasses............................................. vi The Standing Stones ................................................... 1 Learning to See ........................................................... 7 The Advantages of Being Small: Life in the Boundary Layer .................................... 14 Back to the Pond ....................................................... 21 Sexual Asymmetry and the Satellite Sisters .............. 29 An Affinity for Water ................................................ 35 Binding Up the Wounds: Mosses in Ecological Succession ........................... 44 In the Forest of the Waterbear .................................. 52 Kickapoo ................................................................... 62 Choices ..................................................................... 69 A Landscape of Chance ............................................. 82 City Mosses ............................................................... 91 The Web of Reciprocity: Indigenous Uses of Moss ..................................... 100 The Red Sneaker ..................................................... 111 Portrait of Splachnum ................................................ 121 The Owner .............................................................. 125 The Forest Gives Thanks to the Mosses ................. 141 The Bystander ......................................................... 151 Straw Into Gold ....................................................... 156 Suggestions for Further Reading ............................. 163 Index......................................................................... 166 ...