Robin Kimmerer Moss Quotes

#1. Free enterprise is the sure and so far the only known way of constantly improving the well-being of mankind.

Raymond C. Hoiles

#2. One gram of moss from the forest floor, a piece about the size of a muffin, would harbour 150,000 protozoa, 132,000 tardigrades, 3,000 springtails, 800 rotifers, 500 nematodes, 400 mites, and 200 fly larvae. These numbers tell us something about the astounding quantity of life in a handful of moss.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#3. Once the game begins, I play to that song in my head. I run to rhythm, and that allows my mind to be free.

Marshall Faulk

#4. If time could run backward, like a film in reverse, we would see this mess reassemble itself into lush green hills and moss-covered ledges of limestone. The streams would run back up the hills to the springs and the salt would stay glittering in underground rooms.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#5. Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves?

Siri Hustvedt

#6. As I wrote in Pastrix I, like any good middle-class mainline Protestant, tend to arrogantly look down my theological nose at talk of demon possession as superstitious snake-handling nonsense, as though it's the spiritual equivalent of a monster truck rally.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#7. And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan. P.238

Alice Walker