The Microbial Garden Within Biodiversity is not just something found in forest, wetlands, and oceans. It’s in the soil and on your skin. Diverse life is all around, and within, us. “Inside you, there is a garden. It teems with microscopic communities of life forms—microbes including bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa—that are rich in purpose we are only beginning to understand. This garden also envelopes you, growing on all your surfaces to form an invisible barrier. It is the threshold where you interface with the world, a world rich with its own unseen gardens. What I’m talking about here is your microbiome: the world within you. Humans might act as if the Earth belongs to us, but microbes were here long before us. ” KEEP READING ON ATMOS
Posted: June 7, 2025