Mushrooms Quotes

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Antiques

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.80, Univ of California Press

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• Advice is like mushrooms. The wrong kind can prove fatal.

  Charles E. McKenzie

  Advice, Kind, Prove

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• Falling in love is like eating mushrooms, you never know if it's the real thing until it's too late.

  Bill Ballance

  Falling In Love, Real, Love Is

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• Why did the mushroom go to the party?
  Because he's a fungi!

  Louis Tomlinson

  Party, Fungi

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• Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health.

  Paul Stamets

  Nature, Health, Unique

  Interview with Patricia Fitzgerald, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2011.

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• I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.

  John Ford

  Heaven, Dew, Now And Then

  'The Broken Heart' (1633) act 1, sc. 3

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• A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.

  John Cage

  Rain, Meals

  John Cage (2010). “A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings”, p.60, Wesleyan University Press

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• I've always thought fairies are like mushrooms, you trip over them when you're not thinking about them, but they're hard to spot when you're searching for them.

  Jo Walton

  Thinking, Fairy, Spots

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.37, Macmillan

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• The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Rain, Umbrella, Increase

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• You have to treat yourself like a mushroom to some degree, in order to keep on discovering things.

  Christian Bale

  Order, Degrees, Treats

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive.

  Donal Henahan

  Death, Dying, Experts

  "John Cage, Elfin Enigma, at 64" by Donal Henahan, www.nytimes.com. October 22, 1976.

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• Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

  Shirley Conran

  Life, Stuff, Too Short

  Superwoman epigraph (1975)

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• Mushrooms have many helpful nutrients, including beta glucans for immune enhancement, ergothioneines for antioxidative potentiation, nerve growth stimulators for helping brain function, and antimicrobial compounds for limiting viruses.

  Paul Stamets

  Brain, Growth, Enhancement

  "Place Mushrooms in Sunlight to Get Your Vitamin D: Part One" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2012.

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• September is different from all other months. It is more magical. I feel the strange chemical change in the earth which produces mushrooms is the cause, too, of the extra 'life' in the air - a resilience, a sparkle.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Air, Resilience, Different

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.1102, Delphi Classics

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• If you treat your employees like mushrooms (keep them in the dark and regularly throw crap on them), it's entirely likely you will get precisely the work you deserve in return.

  Seth Godin

  Dark, Return, Treats

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• Maitake mushrooms are known in Japan as “the dancing mushroom.” According to a Japanese legend, a group of Buddhist nuns and woodcutters met on a mountain trail, where they discovered a fruiting of maitake mushrooms emerging from the forest floor. Rejoicing at their discovery of this delicious mushroom, they danced to celebrate.

  Paul Stamets

  Buddhist, Discovery, Japan

  "Maitake: The Magnificent ‘Dancing’ Mushroom" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2013.

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• Don't eat a mushroom stem and see colors, eat the whole bag and see GOD

  Doug Stanhope

  Color, Bags, Stem

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• ...but I also can't prove that mushrooms could not be intergalactic spaceships spying on us.

  Daniel Dennett

  Religion, Spaceships, Prove

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• When God wants to make a mushroom, he does it overnight, but when He wants to make a giant oak, He takes a hundred years. Great souls are grown through struggles and storms and seasons of suffering. Be patient with the process.

  Rick Warren

  Struggle, Years, Soul

  "Purpose Driven Life". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• If our mushrooms make you hallucinate, please inform us immediately so we can overcharge you.

  Scott Adams

  Please, Ifs

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• Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.

  A. R. Ammons

  Answers

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• Enoki mushrooms, a tasty variety commonly sold in grocery stores, were one of the first mushrooms studied for preventing cancer.

  Paul Stamets

  Cancer, Firsts, Stores

  "Can Eating Enoki Mushrooms Lower Your Cancer Risk?" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2013.

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• Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.

  Emily Dickinson

  Book, Today, Existence

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.525, Harvard University Press

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• DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.

  Spencer Wells

  Motivation, Inspiration, Dna

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• Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the hidden caves, but a forest is also made up of ordinary trees, patches of grass, puddles, clinging vines, mushrooms, and little wildflowers.

  Roberto Bolano

  Flower, Lakes, Tree

  "2666: A Novel". Book by Roberto Bolaño, 2008.

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