from 'Gathering Moss: A Natural Cultural History of Mosses', by Robin Wall Kimmerer

"Even now, I remember the sense of possibility, of mystery that accompanied that first glimpse. For the first time, but not the last, I had the sense that there was more to the world than immediately met the eye. I looked out at the snow falling softly on the branches and rooftops with a new understanding, that every drift was made up of a universe of starry crystals. I was dazzled by what seemed a secret knowledge of snow. The (magnifying) lens and the snowflake were an awakening, the beginning of seeing. It's the time when I first had an inkling that the already gorgeous world becomes even more beautiful the closer you look."
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 "Its life (the Schistostega pennata moss) and ours exist only because of a myriad of synchronicities that bring us to this particular place at this particular moment. In return for such a gift, the only sane response is to glitter in reply." 

(this chapter is even better in the book that just this quote; it is worth reading the entire thing. Also, remember the Dine's conception of this world where we live now being the glittering world. )