Humans have used moss for at 1000 years to help heal their injuries Smithsonian Magazine 2017 Mosses and other small beings issue an invitation to dwell for a time right at the limits of ordinary perception Robin Wall Kimmerer 2003 The world now sacrifices everything to speed Quiet seems to be regarded as a detestable condition to be expurgated by any means which applied science can deviseF Percy Smith dir Gathering Moss 1933