Table of Contents

Preface: Seeing the World Through Moss-Colored Glasses

The Standing Stones

Learning to See

The Advantages of Being Small: Life in the Boundary Layer

Back to the Pond

Sexual Asymmetry and the Satellite Sisters

An Affinity for Water

Binding Up the Wounds: Mosses in Ecological Succession

In the Forest of the Waterbear

Kickapoo

Choices

A Landscape of Chance

City Mosses

The Web of Reciprocity: Indegenous Uses of Moss

The Red Sneaker

Portrait of Splachnum

The Owner

The Forest Gives Thanks to the Mosses

The Bystander

Straw Into Gold

Suggestions for Further Reading

Index