Entangled Life
How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
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Sheldrake opens not with facts but with strangeness — the unsettling, productive kind that reorients how you see a forest floor. Entangled Life makes fungi its subject but uses them as a lens for rethinking agency, identity, and what it means to be an organism at all. The prose is precise without being cold, and Sheldrake's genuine wonder never tips into sentimentality. Structurally, the book builds outward from biology into philosophy with quiet confidence. It rewards those comfortable sitting with open questions. Anyone drawn to science that destabilises assumptions rather than simply stacking them will find this essential.
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There's a moment reading Merlin Sheldrake where I had to set the book down and just sit with what I'd learned — that fungi were here before plants colonized land, that they essentially *taught* roots how to exist. Sheldrake writes with this infectious, almost giddy wonder that never tips into condescension, and I found his prose doing something rare: making me feel genuinely small in the best possible way. I came away from this book unable to walk through a forest without thinking about everything happening beneath my feet, invisible and ancient and furiously alive.
Book Details
- Publisher
- Random House Audio
- Published
- January 1, 2020
- Pages
- 368
- Language
- English
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