A. Laurie Palmer is an artist and professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

"The Lichen Museum is a deeply engaging, provocative, humorous, and moving account of why we should pay more attention to lichens. As lichens can be found anywhere, the entire surface of the earth becomes the lichen museum. A. Laurie Palmer weaves together personal anecdotes, theoretical interventions, photography, and detailed research to draw attention to how lichens can offer new ways to think through questions of relationality, life and death, and our mutual obligations to each other."-Heather Davis, author of Plastic Matter"Meditative and inquisitive, The Lichen Museum is an interdisciplinary work about learning from the most unassuming of species."-Foreword"Reading this work feels like taking a series of walks with a particularly curious and sensitive companion, consistently attentive to otherwise neglected facets of the actual environment. "-e-flux"As an environmentally engaged artist, Palmer introduces readers to lichens through personal observations, extensive research, and critical evaluation of past and current scientific study of this complex living organism and offers her musings on the potential philosophical and poetic implications of these symbiotic organisms."-CHOICE"The Lichen Museum invites readers to slow down long enough to contemplate their environment and the many living things in it that they ignore every day, at their mutual peril." -California Review of Books"The Lichen Museum is a fine book, delivering a solid account of lichen biology embedded in a framework of cross-disciplinary intellectual inquiry." -Plant Science Bulletin

A. Laurie Palmer is an artist and professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

"The Lichen Museum is a deeply engaging, provocative, humorous, and moving account of why we should pay more attention to lichens. As lichens can be found anywhere, the entire surface of the earth becomes the lichen museum. A. Laurie Palmer weaves together personal anecdotes, theoretical interventions, photography, and detailed research to draw attention to how lichens can offer new ways to think through questions of relationality, life and death, and our mutual obligations to each other."-Heather Davis, author of Plastic Matter"Meditative and inquisitive, The Lichen Museum is an interdisciplinary work about learning from the most unassuming of species."-Foreword"Reading this work feels like taking a series of walks with a particularly curious and sensitive companion, consistently attentive to otherwise neglected facets of the actual environment. "-e-flux"As an environmentally engaged artist, Palmer introduces readers to lichens through personal observations, extensive research, and critical evaluation of past and current scientific study of this complex living organism and offers her musings on the potential philosophical and poetic implications of these symbiotic organisms."-CHOICE"The Lichen Museum invites readers to slow down long enough to contemplate their environment and the many living things in it that they ignore every day, at their mutual peril." -California Review of Books"The Lichen Museum is a fine book, delivering a solid account of lichen biology embedded in a framework of cross-disciplinary intellectual inquiry." -Plant Science Bulletin