Lichens - Toward a Minimal Resistance
Lichens - Toward a Minimal Resistance Covering almost 8 percent of the earth's terrain, lichens are living beings which are familiar to everyone, known to no one. But the more time we spend with…
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Lichens - Toward a Minimal Resistance
Covering almost 8 percent of the earth's terrain, lichens are living beings which are familiar to everyone, known to no one. But the more time we spend with lichens, the more they reveal their beauty, their mysteries and their strange power of attraction. They are one of those organisms that seem to offer nothing to hold our gaze.
Part-algae and part-fungus, lichens call into question our customary ways of classifying forms of life, and allow us to conceive of an ecology that is no longer based on distinctions between nature and culture, urban and rural, competition and cooperation.The result of several years of investigation carried out on several different continents, this remarkable book offers an original, radical, and, like its subject matter, symbiotic reflection on this common but mostly invisible form of life, blending cultures and disciplines, drawing on biology,