“We are at stake to each other...We are all lichens, so we can be scraped off the rocks by the Furies, who still erupt to avenge crimes against the Earth. Alternatively, we can join in the metabolic transformations between and among rocks and critters, for living and dying well. "Do you realize," the phytolinguists will say to the aesthetic critic, "that once upon a time, they couldn't even read eggplant?" And they will smile at our ignorance, as they pick up their rucksacks and hike on up to read the newly deciphered lyrics of the lichen on the north face of Pike's Peak.” PermacultureFeminist TheoryBiomimicryHarawayCompanionate SpeciesSympoetics Author:Donna Haraway, "Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene" (Chapter 2)