The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors

The forest is not a collection of entities joined by such networks; it is a place entirely made from strands of relationship.

Omaere Foundation, which she leads,

The cancer of unrestrained cellular individuality can, and still does, destroy networks from within.

These connections and movements are extensions of the solar-powered network, mediated by the actions of Homo sapiens.

Seawater isn’t only water but a living community.

A network, once established, might be called an individual.

Tilting our heads away from the atom, it seems that life is not just networked; it is network.

Virginia Woolf wrote that “real life” was the common life, not the “little separate lives which we live as individuals.” Her sketch of this reality included trees and the sky, alongside human sisters and brothers.

Two billion years ago, the boundary between the self and the community was already blurred.