The fundamental nature of life may be not atomistic but relational.

Omaere Foundation, which she leads,

Spirits are not otherworldly ghosts from a distant heaven or hell but are the very nature of the forest, earthed and grounded, connecting soil and imagination.

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

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

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

At least half of the other species in the forest find food or home in or on the recumbent bodies of fallen trees.

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

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