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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
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Fungi, like plants, are decentralized organisms. There are no operational centers, no capital cities, no seats of government. Control is dispersed: Mycelial coordination takes place both everywhere at once and nowhere in particular. A fragment of mycelium can regenerate an entire network, meaning that a single mycelial individual—if you’re brave en... See more
“A mycelial network is a map of a fungus’s recent history and is a helpful reminder that all life-forms are in fact processes not things. The “you” of five years ago was made from different stuff than the “you” of today. Nature is an event that never stops. As William Bateson, who coined the word genetics, observed, “We commonly think of animals an... See more
Margaret Wheatley’s work about biomimicry and mycelium magic.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
The body is a resonator; attuning to the energies of the world, it knows them.
Philip Shepherd • Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being
From these roots, a fungal network laced out into the soil and around the roots of nearby trees. Without this fungal web my tree would not exist. Without similar fungal webs no plant would exist anywhere. All life on land, including my own, depended on these networks.
Merlin Sheldrake • Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Nature transcends our tendencies to label and classify, to reduce and limit. The natural world is unfathomably more rich, interwoven, and complicated than we are taught, and so much more mysterious and beautiful.