Myra Beatrice’s Reviews > Trees, Truffles, and Beasts: How Forests Function > Status Update

“In other words, we must give up concentrating on this or that species as endangered and focus instead on the consequences of endangering the functional relationships that are critical to the integrity of the ecosystems.”

“Truffles form at least 90 percent of the diet of long-footed potoroos…[which] move up and down the slope of the forested water catchments they occupy in response to the seasonal fruiting of the various species of truffle.”

“And it all begins with a seed that germinates, is allowed to grow, and through time performs its appointed functions in the forest—one of which is to reinvest back into the soil the biological capital temporarily archived in its body.”

“In light of these uncertainties, it would be prudent to doubt the certainty of our current knowledge regarding fire and proceed with caution and humility, which casts a more gentle human shadow across the land for the benefit of all generations.”