'That's never moss, not in a million years...'

Try 400 million years.


'This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be.
Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the rock, the moss.
In autumn, it would be right; in winter under the snow, it would be perfect in its wintriness.
Spring would come again and miracle within miracle would unfold, each at its special pace, some things having died off, some sprouting in their first spring, but all of equal and utter rightness.'

Jean Liedloff