Merlin Sheldrake
Born 1987
Merlin is the author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures. Merlin received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. He is a research associate of the Vrije University, Amsterdam, and sits on the advisory board of the Fungi Foundation and the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks.
Quotes
“The more of their surroundings that hyphae can touch, the more they can consume. The difference between animals and fungi is simple: Animals put food in their bodies, whereas fungi put their bodies in the food.”
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures, Chapter 2 “Tricked out of our expectations, we fall back on our senses. What’s astonishing is the gulf between what we expect to find and what we find when we actually look.”
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures, pp. 14-15 “It is no longer possible to conceive of any organism—humans included—as distinct from the microbial communities they share a body with.”
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures, Chapter 3
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Books by Merlin Sheldrake in order
Books by Merlin Sheldrake in the order they were published, from Entangled Life (2020) to La Red Oculta De La Vida (2020).
