Entangled life6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Fungi are nature’s premiere destroyers and creators, digesting the world’s dead and leaving behind new soil. They are often microscopic and reside mostly out of sight-mainly underground-but as Merlin Sheldrake writes in Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures, they support and sustain nearly all living systems. And everywhere there are probing fungi.įungi are classified as their own kingdom, separate from plants and animals. Plant roots plunge and swerve like superhighways with an infinite number of on-ramps. Their best guess is that there are as many as one billion microbes in a single teaspoon of soil. ![]() The same applies, though we rarely think of it: the dirt beneath you, whether a mile or a foot deep, is teeming with more organisms than researchers can quantify. Now imagine lying in a field, or on the forest floor. ![]() You have some sense of its vast, unknowable depths-worlds of life are surely darting about beneath you. Imagine that you are afloat on your back in the sea. ![]()
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