44 pages 1 hour read

Merlin Sheldrake

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

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Essay Topics

1.

Compare the message of Entangled Life to that of another nature writer (for example, Suzanne Simard’s Finding the Mother Tree, Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees, or Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass). How do these writers tackle the theme of interconnectedness in nature?

2.

Research one or more of the experiments covered in Entangled Life. How did researchers attempt to avoid human- and plant-centric biases in their work?

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Research one or more of the products discussed in “Radical Mycology.” How could these products be used to improve the world? Are there any drawbacks?