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The living root bridges of the Khasi have lived rent free in my head for more than a decade. This book compiles the experimental work of some German academics who are inspired by those same bridges, and a slew of other past and contemporary efforts (both realized and speculative) to blend arboriculture and architecture into a new field all its own. If you've ever wanted to grow a house made of living trees like an elf from dwarf fortress, this book is a wonderful guide to striking the balance between what can be imagined and what one may be able to achieve within the limits of plant biology. It gets a bit technical, but I believe the authors do a good job of explaining the relevant plant biology in an accessible way, and there are many simple and stylized diagrams that explain key concepts of growth dynamics.

Murray Bookchin gives shopping malls a 0/10, I wonder how much worse he would have felt about amazon.

A fantastic look at the wee little mossy worlds all around us. It is a tad repetitive in places, the essays build off each other but can stand alone quite well. I would recommend reading in audio book because of the interesting linguistic fact that most mosses do not have common names so its fairly Latin heavy and my brain refuses to parse Latin in a way that's anywhere close to correct. With imagery that is lush and full of love for the living world, Kimmerer shows us a radical path to "looking at the world through moss colored glasses". big fan, get ye a hand lense and this book, and go touch some moss friend