An environmental artist learned more about moss establishment than scientists

Evidence

The sad truth is that many scientists believe they have the sole method for understanding the workings of the natural world. Artists don’t seem to share that illusion of exclusive truth. In midwifing the birth of a moss community, Jackie has discovered more about moss establishment on rock than any scientist I know. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss, 401

Categorization

• XREF: Directly extends the ch2 theme that scientific and indigenous ways of knowing must be braided — here extended to artistic knowing as a third eye. — connects to: An elder’s relational plant knowledge far exceeds botanists’ scientific depth — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 160
• DEEPTHINKING: A genuine challenge to scientism: the artist working by making and midwifing a community rather than measuring one arrives at a truth scientists missed.

Broader Connections

• An elder’s relational plant knowledge far exceeds botanists’ scientific depth #epitomizes (0.85) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 160