Probiotic scientists,
thinking like Gaia, are preoccupied with evolutionary and ecological
relationships as well as the ways living organisms shape and are shaped
by their environments. These scientists think in cycles; they concern
themselves with feedback loops with the potential to modulate or amplify
ecological change. They focus on questions of symbiosis and symbio-
genesis—the reciprocal, coevolutionary relationships and dependencies
between life-forms—as well as the ways these configure the structure,
intensities, and dynamics of ecologies, climates, and geomorphologies.
This science stretches and subverts the neo-Darwinian figure of the
bounded human individual, emphasizing both its microbial composi-
tion and its planetary entanglements.

From Jamie Lorimer - The Probiotic Planet

[T]hose involved in rewilding must come to terms with how the diagnosis of the Anthropocene undermines the idea of a stable earth—an earth that provides the background to human history and is a source of timeless value. Although this argument predates the political event of the Anthropocene, conservationists have come to realize that there really is no longer a nature to which we can return. Similarly, although on a different scale, the figure of the human as an unraveling holobiont—a multispecies chimera that
is kept alive, sane, and rational by its microbes—unsettles the modern idea of health as the absence of microbes and of the Human as a mind in a vat.

From Jamie Lorimer - The Probiotic Planet