Covering almost 8 percent of the earth's terrain, lichens are
living beings which are familiar to everyone, known to no one. They
are one of those organisms that seem to offer nothing to hold our
gaze. But the more time we spend with lichens, the more they reveal
their beauty, their mysteries and their strange power of
attraction. 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, ecology,
philosophy, literature, poetry, even graphic art. What if lichens
were at the heart of some of the most pressing and topical
questions of our day? Does the fact that they can live everywhere,
even in very harsh environments, that they persist when almost all
other traces of life have disappeared, mean that, despite their
fragility, lichens are a force of resistance? After reading this
book you will never see lichens, or the world, in the same way
again.
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