Symbiosis is rad.
We tend to think of survival as competitive — survival of the fittest, and “it’s a dog eat dog world”– but when we zoom in really close, we see that nature is so frequently cooperative. And when we zoom out and look at earth as a whole, we see that nature exists as large systems of interdependence.
Our survival requires cooperation too.
Ever since high school biology, I always* knew** that someday you’d blog about lichen. I believed in you.
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You’ve been waiting this whole time, and today’s the day!
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