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We [a colony of moss] create the conditions of our thriving.

“A colony of moss has no interest in or even awareness of human activity. But if it did, it might say this: … Their brief lives allow them only a narrow field of vision, and they have only the barest understanding of the consequences of their actions.”

“What she feels most, though, is a kind of lost-ness, she has tossed aside the person who could love her in her strangeness and difficulty, whom she could love, who fit his personality to hers and whom she too grew to fit, and it seems impossible that she will find such a kinship again.”

“She cannot put her finger on it, the moment when she began to have a sense of walls closing in... increasingly, a kind of curtailment, the boundaries of her self growing smaller, her possible futures shutting down.”