Merlin Sheldrake

Without similar fungal webs no plant would exist anywhere. All life on land, including my own, depended on these networks. I tugged lightly on my root and felt the ground move.

Human life has forever been shaped by fungi. Diseases caused by fungi cause billions of dollars of losses – the rice blast fungus ruins a quantity of rice large enough to feed more than sixty million people every year. Fungal diseases of trees

At a molecular level, fungi and humans are similar enough to benefit from many of the same biochemical innovations