Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

by Merlin Sheldrake

You carry around more microbes than your “own” cells. There are more bacteria in your gut than stars in our galaxy.

Whoa

“We commonly think of animals and plants as matter, but they are really systems through which matter is continually passing.” When we see an organism, from a fungus to a pine tree, we catch a single moment in its continual development.

Mind blowing

lichens are queer beings that present ways for humans to think beyond a rigid binary framework: The identity of lichens is a question rather than an answer known in advance.

Lichens and the idea of queerness are two words holding space for a yet undefined way of existing.