#Entangled Life

[the-bramble--patch]

"I had a professor called Oliver Rackham, an ecologist and historian, who studied the ways that ecosystems have shaped--and been shaped by--human cultures for thousands of years. He took us to nearby forests and told us about the history of these places and their human inhabitants by reading the twists and splits in the branches of old oak trees, by observing where nettles thrived, by noting which plants did or didn't grow in a hedgerow. Under Rackham's influence, the clean line I had imagined dividing nature and culture started to blur."

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life

#solarpunk #my projects #entangled life

[probablyasocialecologist]

The biologist Robin Wall Kimmerer, a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, observes that the indigenous Potawatomi language is rich in verb forms that attribute aliveness to the more-than-human world. The word for “hill,” for example, is a verb: to be a hill. Hills are always in the process of hilling, they are actively being hills. Equipped with this “grammar of animacy,” it is possible to talk about the life of other organisms without either reducing them to an “it” or borrowing concepts traditionally reserved for humans. By contrast, in English, writes Kimmerer, there is no way to recognize the “simple existence of another living being.” If you’re not a human subject, by default you’re an inanimate object: an “it,” a “mere thing.” If you repurpose a human concept to help make sense of the life of a nonhuman organism, you’ve tumbled into the trap of anthropomorphism. Use “it,” and you’ve objectified the organism and fallen into a different kind of trap.

Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

#Entangled Life #Robin Wall Kimmerer #life

[tamvmat]

I made a lichen bookmark for reading this book

🍄💚🍄

Fascinating stuff.

#mycology #entangled life #books #merlin sheldrake

[bones-ivy-breath]

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 space, inducing visions, producing food, making medicines, manipulating animal behavior, and influencing the composition of the Earth's atmosphere. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways that we think, feel, and behave. Yet they live their lives largely hidden from view, and over ninety percent of their species remain undocumented. The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them.

Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

#quote #entangled life #merlin sheldrake #literature #nature #ecology #fungus #mycology #original post #dark academia #light academia #green academia #fungi #mushrooms #earth

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

I found a mush mush while reading about mush mushes

#enter tags here #mushrooms #entangled life

[mr-craig]

Spribille told me about a paper called ‘Queer theory for lichens’ (‘It comes up as the first thing in Google when you enter "queer" and "lichen"’). Its author argues that lichens are queer beings that present ways for humans to think beyond a rigid binary framework: the identity of lichens is a question, rather than an answer known in advance. In turn, Spribille has found queer theory a helpful framework to apply to lichens. ‘The human binary view has made it difficult to ask questions that aren't binary,’ he explained. ‘Our strictures about sexuality make it difficult to ask questions about sexuality, and so on. We ask questions from the perspective of our cultural context. And this makes it extremely difficult to ask questions about complex symbioses like lichens because we think of ourselves as autonomous individuals and so find it hard to relate.’

~ ‘Entangled Life’ by Merlin Sheldrake

(Currently reading this book and I never expected to find lichens so relatable. My new queer, nonbinary, polyamorous heroes of the natural world.)

#lichen #lichens #mycology #queer #queer theory #Merlin Sheldrake #Entangled Life

[godzilla-reads]

“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.”

—Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds

#godzilla reads #merlin sheldrake #entangled life #books and flowers #mushroom books #book blog #reading #bibliophile #book quotes #nature books #nonfiction books #booklr #bookworm

[jswatson]

entranced by the whole thing the sheldrake brothers have going on

one is an amazing mycologist and ate his own book. the other is an amazing musician with some real bangers. their parents are known for pseudoscience. they have the most fucked up names you could give to your children.

#cosmo sheldrake #merlin sheldrake #entangled life #im sure theres more weird shit about them i probably dont know about yet

[the-cosmic-yeet]

im reading entangled life by merlin sheldrake (100% recommend btw) and im on page 66 rn and this book has made me experience like ten different existential crises such as questioning the boundary of “self” and “other” and showing me the massive scale of fungi

the more I learn about hyphae I am convinced that fungi are actually angels. large beyond comprehension? operates in ways and purposes unknown? perceives more than I could ever with my two little eyes? these bastards have opsins. so basically. beings covered in eyes growing in all directions and existing in ways that are just. What.

also it’s 3 am and while I love bio and mushrooms and want to study them in the future my brain appears to be disagreeing. excuse me as I go back to thinking about these fungal bastards

#entangled life #merlin sheldrake #fungi #mushrooms

[heliksun]

+ sort of a fungal lichen thing

#art #my art #traditional art #illustration #colored pencils #lichen #fungus #fungi #decay #moss #entangled life

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

Imagination forms part of the everyday business of inquiring. Science isn’t an exercise in cold-blooded rationality. Scientists are - and have always been - emotional, creative, intuitive, whole human beings, asking questions about a world that was never meant to be catalogued and systematized.

Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life

#book quotes #merlin sheldrake #entangled life #biology #ecology #nature writing #nature quotes #science quotes #literature #nature

[probablyasocialecologist]

Ancient Sumerians—who left written beer recipes dating back five thousand years—worshipped a goddess of fermentation, Ninkasi. In The Egyptian Book of the Dead, prayers are addressed to “givers of bread and beer.” Among the Ch’orti’ people in South America, the onset of fermentation was understood as “the birth of the good spirit.” The ancient Greeks had Dionysus—the god of wine, winemaking, madness, drunkenness, and domesticated fruit in general—a personification of the power of alcohol both to forge and corrode human cultural categories.

Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

#Entangled Life #alcohol

[onestellarghost]

mushroom studies referenced from the cover of Entangled Life

#sketchbook art is hard to photograph whoops #aster's art #mushrooms #mushroom art #fungus #fungi #entangled life #merlin sheldrake #sketchbook #sketch

[peonybookblog]

🌿 books about plants (& fungi) 🌿

#plants #books #braiding sweetgrass #entangled life #plant messiah #gathering moss #michael pollan #this is your mind on plants #merlin sheldrake #carlos magdalena #pop sci #robin wall kimmerer #conservation #nature books

[haikulibrary]

Secret fungal web Makes the forest possible: Everything connects.

Title: Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures Author: Merlin Sheldrake Published: 2020 Read: October 2023 Rating: 5/5

#haiku #original haiku #Entangled Life #Merlin Sheldrake #mycology #mycorrhizal fungi #reading #books #haikulibrary

[afieldinengland]

entangled life, merlin sheldrake

#entangled life