As sites for more-than-human dramas, landscapes are radical tools for decentering human hubris. Landscapes are not backdrops for…

“As sites for more-than-human dramas, landscapes are radical tools for decentering human hubris. Landscapes are not backdrops for historical action: they are themselves active. Watching landscapes in formation shows humans joining other living beings in shaping worlds. Matsutake and pine don’t just grow in forests; they make forests. Matsutake forests are gatherings that build and transform landscape”

–Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. The Mushroom at the End of the World.