Sublime

The mycologist Lynne Boddy once made a scale model of Britain out of soil, placing blocks of fungus-colonised wood at the points of the major cities; the blocks were sized proportionately to the places they represented. Mycelial networks quickly grew between the blocks: the web they created reproduced the pattern of the UK’s motorways (‘You could s

The anthropologist Tim Ingold has a theory that humans live, and give their lives meaning, by making lines.

Even solitary trees were located with infallible accuracy by the airborne beetles which spread the disease. One of the most perfect trees I have ever seen was an almost two hundred-year-old elm that stood on its own in a field not far from our house. About one hundred feet tall, it filled an immense space. I recall that, after most of the elms in t

Assim as árvores se livram de pragas inconvenientes e podem continuar crescendo livremente.

FUNGI ARE EVERYWHERE but they are easy to miss. They are inside you and around you. They sustain you and all that you depend on. As you read these words, fungi are changing the way that life happens, as they have done for more than a billion years. They are eating rock, making soil, digesting pollutants, nourishing and killing plants, surviving in

Embora muitas espécies de árvores travem lutas mortais e tentem reprimir umas às outras até nas raízes, os fungos parecem mais preocupados com o equilíbrio da floresta.

a grossura e a estabilidade de um tronco são determinadas pelos contratempos que sofre.