The Changing Strategies of Human Weakness from a natural tenacity person – a marginalian

The hero of modern fiction is the victim, the epitome of do-it-yourself pronoun. It seems that we have forgotten that we are survivors of countless spheres of space and time, creatures that have never provided gills for lungs if we attach the identity of gillness.

Not so with lichens.

When I was a child, Lichen said to me the magical garolalls that strike from the pine trees, which I have made from the trees and mustaches that roam the Bulgarian mountains like Orlando. I didn't know that USNEA Longussima it's just one of over 20,000 lichen species – almost twice as many as birds.

In the lifetime since then, I've collected and photographed lichens all over the world, from stupes on a wild beach to a stone wall in Ireland to my little friend's headstone in Brompton Cemetery in London. And because anything that spoils with a deviation will be a mirror, until I see that Lichen knows many things that we spend our lives learning – about difficulty, about being difficult.

Here are some of the commandments of life shown to the natural titans of ancient ntacity:

They contain your masses without internal conflict. Mostly because of the critical research of Peter Rabbit Now, now we know that lichens have part of algae and include part of fungus, by spraying bacteria – to deal with being dominated but they work together to make you a healthy natural life and the keywotone of many natural environments. It was through his study of lichen that the German pathologist and botanist Heinrich Anton de Bary wrote the term symbiosis in 1879.

Come see if you can feel at home anywhere – the roots are full. Lichens do not have a root system to draw nutrients and moisture from the soil. Instead, they adapt the sunlight to the sugar, using their part of the part – or algae or cyanobacteria, depending on the photosynthesize and accept their favorable humidity and the yards of the house and the grams of trees and living areas. Contrary to common misconception, they do not use the creatures they grow on but only as a substrate.

Adapting to external difficulties through internal change. When environmental conditions clear, lichens can shut down their metabolism for long periods of time, sometimes decades. This allows them to thrive in almost every environment in the world – from freshwater lakes to mountains, from the iciest deserts to the iciest tundra. They have survived the Martian conditions and the dark harshness of outer space: when a group of Spanish scientists sent a general map of Lichen Rhizocarpon gerographicum and bright orange wonder Rusavskia Eleans Russian Spacecraft to be exposed to cosmic radiation for 15 days, the lichens returned to Earth intact and restarted their reproductive cycles.

Be a pioneer that there may be ruins there. Lichens tend to be the first organisms to grow in the cracked rock left over from earthquakes, the only aftershocks, the only surviving tombstones where their corpses return their atoms to the earth.

Know that you don't need a partner to fulfill your life. Most lichens reproduce, by spreading humors containing a few cells from their inner layer or by simply breaking off pieces of them to grow into new material.

Leave the world better than you found it. Lichens enrich the desert soil, strengthen the sand dunes, and build the soil in the stone in the long arc of their lives. They are part of how mountains become golden sand.

Be very patient with the arc of your life. Lichens, among the oldest living things on earth, grow in an area of ​​tectonic speed of less than milliliters. The continent I now live in and the continent I was born in fought more than 250 times in a flash. The moon leaves us four hundred times faster.

He became a living poem. Lichen pins one of the most beautiful, powerful poems ever written – Elizabeth Bishop's Ode to the gray love of the love of her life, the Brazilian architect and the world of Lota de Macedo

Shampoo
by Elizabeth Bishop

The blast that remains in the rocks,
lichens, grow
with diffuse, gray, concentrated shock.
They are organized
meet the rings around the moon, though
within our memories they have not changed.

And as the heavens will be
long time for us,
Be, dear friend,
precipitatate and pragmatical;
And look what happens. Time
nothing if it doesn't happen.

Shooting stars in your dark hair
in light formation
shocked there,
So, soon?
– Come, let me wash you in a big tin kettle,
beaten and shining like the moon.