Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms (2013)
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I think it’s wild and deeply inspiring to imagine how the surface of the earth had radically different forms over billions of years. Huge landscapes of unrotted dead plants. Then massive landscapes of fungus and decomposing bacteria breaking that down into dirt. And on and on. I think it is wise to understand that earth has been through many eras and is not as homeostatic as our narrowly imagined “natural” state we seek today. And I am not trying to…
When I read the title, I immediately thought of Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne (1864). The flora are described as consisting of "...surrounded by a rocky coastline covered in petrified trees and giant mushrooms".
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-12-17 | Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant MushroomsFirst breakout | myinnerbanjo | 253 | 101 |
| 2020-10-06 | Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms(2013) | jelliclesfarm | 7 | 0 |
| 2021-08-16 | Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms (2013) | tomlong | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-04-26 | Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms (2013)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | janandonly | 333 | 245 |