![]() ![]() Entangled Life, a New York Times and Sunday Times best-seller, has been translated into 26 languages, and was named a TIME Must-Read Book. As the English biologist Merlin Sheldrake writes in “Entangled Life,” his rich and colorful portrait of fungi, “the more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them.”Ĭopyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist, speaker, and author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures. They bind soil particles so they don’t blow apart when water passes by and they seed raindrops. Without decomposing fungi we’d be buried under miles of plant debris, and with them, all sorts of organic compounds may be decomposed, from petroleum to sarin gas. They function as a shadow immune system and procurer of nutrition for plants they are the source of some of the worst plagues of people and animals and crops, and the best medicine we have. ![]() They live most everywhere and in most everything, and some can-theoretically-live forever. Fungi are implicated in all aspects of life on Earth. I admit it was a rather mercenary starting point, but the more I learned about fungi and their fruiting bodies, mushrooms, the more fascinated I became. That required some study on why they lived where they lived. When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. Like many people, I got interested in mycology because I wanted to find wild mushrooms, especially morels, which are in season right now. Join us for a mind-bending journey into the hidden universe of fungi. ‘The more we learn about fungi,’ writes Merlin Sheldrake, ‘the less makes sense without them.’ Photo: DESIGN PICS/national geographic ![]()
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