I had always believed government was not a fungus: It could survive in sunshine.
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.
Dinner is usually just pasta with mushrooms.
The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.
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.
If you don't expose something to sunlight, microbes and germs will thrive.
I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.
Plants are both friend and enemy, source of health and, in certain instances, triggers of disease.
Mycelium is Earth's natural Internet.
"I'm hoping that the more you see me, the more I'll grow on you." "Like a fungus?
The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world.
You know how some trees have those ear mushrooms that just grow off, and you could live on one of those mushrooms and not realize that there was stacks and stacks of others? That's how I describe music scenes in New York. That's one of the trippiest things about living here - just how many parallel universes there are that you can be completely unaware of.
Known colloquially as 'winter,' 'golden needle,' and 'velvet foot' mushrooms, enoki mushrooms grow across much of the world, inhabiting dead conifer trees and stumps, and generally appearing throughout the late fall and winter months.
Some people think I'm a mycological heretic, some people think I'm a mycological revolutionary, and some just think I'm crazy.
Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration.
I love black truffles. I love white truffles.
I used to like getting cups and putting tiny bits of food and liquids in them. I'd grow mould plumes in the dark wardrobe of my little back bedroom. Not to eat them, mind - just to admire the growing power.
A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus.
Fungi are the interface organisms between life and death.
Lion's mane mushrooms are not your classic-looking cap-and-stem variety. These globular-shaped mushrooms sport cascading teeth-like spines rather than the more common gills.
I collect spores, molds, and fungus.
From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food!
I have a fear of things growing on things. I don't know where it came from. But I go hiking a lot, and sometimes I can't handle moss growing on trees or tumors on trees or mushrooms.
A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.
For many years, I have sought and studied Agarikon, an unusual mushroom native to the old growth conifer forests of North America and Europe.
