The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most complex of all beverages: the fruit of a soil, climate, and vintage, digested by a fungus… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“If certain bacteria, fungi, or algae inch across something made of copper, they absorb copper atoms, which disrupt their metabolism (human cells… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with broccoli, carrots, celery, string beans, snap peas, black kale, brussels sprouts, cabbage - I could go on! They used… — Lisa Edelstein Copy Share Image
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
Mycologists are few and far between. We are under-funded, poorly represented in the context of other sciences - ironic, as the very… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that's only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
At least that's what his note said, along with a scathing reminder that dishes didn't wash themselves and the fungus in the… — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
The fungi became, or is for some mysterious reason still to be discovered, a pipeline into a mind, an entelechy, which we… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
While conversion of sugars to ethanol is the predominant reaction, it is only one of potentially thousands of biochemical reactions taking place… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possess neither depth… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
But time in only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there'll be mushrooms, fairy-ring… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
