My Notes

Fungus family
mycology (from the Greek μύκης mykes, mushroom)

148,000 species

Growth is their means of mobility

decomposers – nutrient cycling and exchange

“Sixty percent of the enzymes used in industry are generated by fungi, and fifteen percent of all vaccines are produced by engineered strains of yeast.”
― Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

most fungi are inconspicuous but they are everywhere

Leavening agent through fermentation in foods

used in antibiotics

detergents

pesticides

recreational and spiritual uses

very diverse

network

symbiotic relationships

evolve

“all life-forms are in fact processes not things.”
― Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds … Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long." – Wendell Berry

"Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?" -Aldous Huxley