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A history of botany and colonialism touched off by a moss bed

By Nikita Arora · Aeon · September 2022

A history of botany and colonialism touched off by a moss bed

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"Inside a rainforest or on the city pavement, moss asks so little yet offers so much: a tactile encounter with time itself"

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