Disease Quote by Elizabeth Kolbert

Fungi are the interface organisms between life and death.

— Paul Stamets

We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the actions of…

— Philip Wollen

The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.

— Richard Preston

Around the world today we're seeing an incredible transformation, from what I would call a biocidal species, one that - whether we intentionally or…

— Jane Poynter

“In biology, fungus is a kingdom unto itself, a documented land of rot and decay, a place for yeasts and molds and spores and…

— A.S.A. Harrison

If you look on the fungal genome as being soldier candidates protecting the U.S. as our host defense, not only for the ecosystem but…

— Paul Stamets

“In his groundbreaking book Guns, Germs, and Steel, biologist Jared Diamond poses the question: Why did Old World diseases devastate the New World and…

— Douglas Preston

Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration,

— Paul Stamets

The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm. It is…

— Paul Davies

That parasite: the past.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

“If there was ever a species that deserved purging from the surface of the planet, it is humanity. We are, or should be, a…

— Mal Peet

The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.

— Nathan Wolfe