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“Without microbes, our food systems would collapse. Without microbes, our societies would crumble, and our bodies would not function in the long term.”
― Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
― Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
“We must see the woods (social and ecological systems) for the wood (timber).”
― Treewilding: Our Past, Present and Future Relationship with Forests
― Treewilding: Our Past, Present and Future Relationship with Forests
“To me, the act of restoring a forest is synonymous with restoring meaning.”
― Treewilding: Our Past, Present and Future Relationship with Forests
― Treewilding: Our Past, Present and Future Relationship with Forests
“Microbes are the glue that holds it all together – our invisible friends.”
― Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
― Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
“Microbes were here billions of years before us, curating our DNA, our cells, and the ‘metaorganism’ we embody today.”
― Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
― Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
“By wandering around natural environments and allowing Streptomyces spores to hitch a ride, we could also be their dispersers.”
― Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
― Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
“Forests are not just a collection of trees; they’re homes to myriad communities, from the visible to the almost imperceptible.”
― Treewilding: Our Past, Present and Future Relationship with Forests
― Treewilding: Our Past, Present and Future Relationship with Forests
“Our fleeting existence will not ensure our resident microbes live for an eternity, but there is no doubt they will find another home once we are gone.”
― Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
― Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
“We are connected to many others via the internet (a shallow synthetic connection), but the deep organic bonds that connect us to the rest of nature are breaking.”
― Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
― Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
“This microbial cloud we emit is a biological internet—a phenomenal multi-species correspondence.”
― Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
― Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
“We can view ourselves as walking ecosystems—human hosts plus trillions of microbial symbionts.”
― Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
― Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
“You scratch my bark, I'll scratch yours.”
― Treewilding: Our Past, Present and Future Relationship with Forests
― Treewilding: Our Past, Present and Future Relationship with Forests
“When we disconnect the product from its source, we risk devaluing the interdependence of life.”
― Treewilding: Our Past, Present and Future Relationship with Forests
― Treewilding: Our Past, Present and Future Relationship with Forests
“Restoring forests restores their vast and unparalleled intrinsic and instrumental value.”
― Treewilding: Our Past, Present and Future Relationship with Forests
― Treewilding: Our Past, Present and Future Relationship with Forests
“A healthy person is home to a hundred times more viruses than there are individual trees on the planet – a hundred global forests of phages inside you!”
― Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
― Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
“Our health and the planet’s health are intertwined, both deeply reliant on these invisible networks of life.”
― Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
― Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
“If we could line the microbes from a single person’s gut up end to end, they would be able to circle the Earth two and a half times.”
― Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
― Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
“We cannot effectively conserve and restore nature if our worldview is predicated on control and convenience rather than reciprocity and belonging.”
― Treewilding: Our Past, Present and Future Relationship with Forests
― Treewilding: Our Past, Present and Future Relationship with Forests
“The forest’s animals, plants, and microbes contribute to energy flows, disease protection, and soil formation and structure. The tight-knit relationships between these organisms allow the forest to be resilient.”
― Treewilding: Our Past, Present and Future Relationship with Forests
― Treewilding: Our Past, Present and Future Relationship with Forests
“A forest is as much invisible as it is visible.”
― Treewilding: Our Past, Present and Future Relationship with Forests
― Treewilding: Our Past, Present and Future Relationship with Forests
“The human immune system at birth is like a computer without data—it needs exposure to the right microbes to function properly.”
― Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
― Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
“We are simultaneously the most connected and the least connected we have ever been.”
― Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
― Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
“By bringing back our microbial ‘old friends’ from natural environments, we can start to heal the disconnection between humans and the rest of nature.”
― Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
― Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
