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Bryology (MOSS) Encore with Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer

Ologies with Alie Ward

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A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss

Casey Sisterson: The Rolling Stone gathers no moss proverb is confusing. He says it was originally supposed to mean that a tree that's moved a bunch bears no fruit. In the 1950s, psychiatrists would read this idiom off to you and diagnose you as schizophrenia if you couldn't explain what it meant metaphorically.

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