Quotes About Fungi

Mushrooms grow on cow turds. I love that. I think that's why you giggle the first hour.

Meanwhile the castle rolled. Great walls collapsed, one into another. The colours of the tracts were horrible. The vilest green. The most hideous purple. Here the foul shimmering of rotting fungi – there a tract of books alive with mice.

Fungi constitute the most poorly understood and underappreciated kingdom of life on earth

Stamets had recommended that I "cook" the mushrooms to destroy the compounds that can upset the stomach.

Noi avem tendinÈ›a s? ne îndrept?m atenÈ›ia È™i È™tiinÈ›a spre via?? È™i creÈ™tere, dar fireÈ™te c? moartea È™i descompunerea nu sunt mai puÈ›in importante pentru operaÈ›iile naturii, iar ciupercile sunt st?pânii necontestaÈ›i ai acestui t?râm.

Psilocybe cubensis, one of the more common species of magic mushroom.

these remarkable mushrooms produce, in addition to spores, meanings in human minds.

He writes in his book that mycelia—the vast, cobwebby whitish net of single-celled filaments, called hyphae, with which fungi weave their way through the soil—are intelligent, forming "a sentient membrane" and "the neurological network of nature.

I genuinely believe that I'm an advanced, well-armed, stealth-capable ship because it will help me harvest fungi better. This is not at all irrational.

Many African practitioners are expert herbalists and have an encyclopedic knowledge of the plants, mushrooms, toadstools, and other fungi of their region.

What a natural history of religion would show is that the human experience of the divine has deep roots in psychoactive plants and fungi. Karl Marx may have gotten in backward when he called religion the opiate of the people.

the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe.

All Fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once.

For not only do fabulous rumors naturally grow out of the very body of all surprising terrible events,—as the smitten tree gives birth to its fungi; but, in maritime life, far more than in that of terra firma, wild rumors abound, wherever there is any adequate reality for them to cling to.

The only good mushroom is a cooked mushroom.

I'm a mushroom freak. I make a mushroom soup where I use maybe six or seven varieties, not just portobello and shiitake, but dried porcini and morels.

Mycologists are few and far between. We are under-funded, poorly represented in the context of other sciences - ironic, as the very foundation of our ecosystems are directly dependent upon fungi, which ultimately create the foundation of soils.

I can't stand anything with mushrooms.

From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food!

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A tree's most important means of staying connected to other trees is a "wood wide web" of soil fungi that connects vegetation in an intimate network that allows the sharing of an enormous amount of information and goods.

All mushrooms are edible — but some only once.

consumption. Fungi are used to ripen Roquefort and other blue cheeses. A species of Aspergillus produces citric acid used in colas. Morels and truffles, the edible fruiting bodies of various ascomycetes, are highly prized for their complex flavors (see Figure 31.16). These fungi can sell

For many years, I have sought and studied Agarikon, an unusual mushroom native to the old growth conifer forests of North America and Europe.