Entangled Life

How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures

de Merlin Sheldrake

Paperback, 368 pages

Publié 13 avril 2021 par Random House Trade Paperbacks.

ISBN :: 978-0-525-51032-1
Numéro OCLC :: 1250658277

(5 critiques)

When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel, and behave.

In Entangled Life, the brilliant young biologist Merlin Sheldrake shows us the world from a fungal point of view, providing an exhilarating change of perspective. Sheldrake’s vivid exploration takes us from yeast to psychedelics, to the fungi that range for miles underground and are the largest organisms on the planet, to those that link plants together in complex networks known as the “Wood Wide Web,” to those that infiltrate and manipulate insect bodies with devastating precision.

Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence …

Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. They are metabolic masters, earth makers, and key players in most of life’s processes. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster. By examining fungi on their own terms, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms—and our relationships with them—are changing our understanding of how life works.

9 éditions

reading tofu a publié une critique de Verwobenes Leben par Merlin Sheldrake

Faszinierend

4 étoiles

Dieses Buch hat mich sehr fasziniert. Pilze haben so viele spannende Eigenschaften und tun coole Dinge, hab vieles nachgeschlagen und weitergelesen.

Sheldrake beschreibt diese Phänomene anschaulich und schlägt dabei immer wieder Bögen zur weiteren Bedeutung und Interpretation dieser für menschliche Forschung, Technik und Gesellschaft und ordnet dabei gut ein, was zum Beispiel Spekulation bzw mit Vorsicht zu genießen ist, aber trotzdem einen gewissen Einfluss auf vieler Leute Denken hat.

Die Analogien und vor allem Anekdoten fand ich teilweise etwas weit hergeholt und vor allem im letzten längeren Kapitel ziemlich zäh. Ganz nebenbei vergleicht er sich dabei selbst mit Pilzen, während er das halbe Buch mahnt, mit der Vermenschlichung von Naturphänomenen zurückhaltend zu sein.

Machinedreamread@bookwyrm.social a publié une critique de Entangled Life par Merlin Sheldrake

Mind Blowing

5 étoiles

It is hard to believe that something so embedded in life on earth is something so mysterious! I have lived on this earth 26 years and did not know almost anything this book discussed. It was an amazing book, and a bite sized introduction into mycology. Loved it!

Francesco Orsenigo a publié une critique de Entangled Life par Merlin Sheldrake

Beautiful and thought provoking

5 étoiles

I knew mushrooms are fascinating, but this book managed to fill me with awe. Sheldrake beautifully describes how fundamental these overlooked beings are for all life on the planet. If you have any passing interest for biology, ecology, plants or fungi, this is a must read.