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lichen

β€œLichens are small biospheres that include both photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic organisms, thus combining the Earth's main metabolic processes. Lichens are in some sense, micro-plents--worlds writ small.”
β€” Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our FuturesπŸ”—