In The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015), anthropologist Anna Tsing describes how “pines, matsutake, and humans all cultivate each other unintentionally. They make each other’s world-making projects possible.” Rather than understanding ourselves as responsible for taming, mastering, and subjugating the natural world, Tsing encourages readers to see our interconnectedness with the environment as a foundational part of what it is to be human animals; more expansively, as thrilling, rangy…