The whole ecosystem of living beings, we might say, is connected through a network of relationships and, to some extent, the erasure of the boundaried self. A human body and a tree, and the bird that dwells in that tree, say, are linked through such networks—networks that ecologists are just beginning to decipher. The bird eats the fruit from a tree and disseminates the seeds through its droppings; the tree, reciprocally, provides a perch for that bird. It’s not invasion, the ecologists insist. It’s interconnectedness.
