Moss
Moss is a small, non-vascular plant that typically forms dense, green mats in damp, shady areas. These simple plants lack true roots, stems, and flowers, instead using thread-like structures called rhizoids to anchor themselves and absorbing water and nutrients directly from the air and soil. Moss plays an ecological role by recycling nutrients, absorbing water, and providing habitats for other organisms.
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Taken on Wednesday August 14, 2019
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Posted on Sunday October 19, 2025
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Dinesh said:
And lift up a patch, dark-green, the kind for lining cemetery baskets,
Thick and cushiony, like an old-fashioned doormat,
The crumbling small hollow sticks on the underside mixed with roots,
And wintergreen berries and leaves still stuck to the top,—
That was moss-gathering.
But something always went out of me when I dug loose those carpets
Of green, or plunged to my elbows in the spongy yellowish moss of the marshes:
And afterwards I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road,
As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland;
Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance,
By pulling off flesh from the living planet;
As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration.
“Moss Gathering” ~ Theodore Roethke
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