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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.”
― Jake Robinson, Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
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“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.”
― Jake Robinson, Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
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“By wandering around natural environments and allowing Streptomyces spores to hitch a ride, we could also be their dispersers.”
― Jake Robinson, Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
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“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.”
― Jake Robinson, Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
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“We are simultaneously the most connected and the least connected we have ever been.”
― Jake Robinson, Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
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“This microbial cloud we emit is a biological internet—a phenomenal multi-species correspondence.”
― Jake Robinson, Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
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“We can view ourselves as walking ecosystems—human hosts plus trillions of microbial symbionts.”
― Jake Robinson, Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
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“By bringing back our microbial ‘old friends’ from natural environments, we can start to heal the disconnection between humans and the rest of nature.”
― Jake Robinson, Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
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“The human immune system at birth is like a computer without data—it needs exposure to the right microbes to function properly.”
― Jake Robinson, Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
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“Microbes were here billions of years before us, curating our DNA, our cells, and the ‘metaorganism’ we embody today.”
― Jake Robinson, Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
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“Our health and the planet’s health are intertwined, both deeply reliant on these invisible networks of life.”
― Jake Robinson, Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
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“Microbes are the glue that holds it all together – our invisible friends.”
― Jake Robinson, Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
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“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.”
― Jake Robinson, Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
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“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!”
― Jake Robinson, Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us
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