Quote by Paul Stamets

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

— Paul Stamets

“The mushrooms were grown in the shadow of the Washington rainforest, hand-picked by altar boys.”

— Debbie Macomber

“There are about two million types of mushrooms in the world”

— Adam Anderson

“Bees have been around for over 30 million years”

— Adam Anderson

“And so the one in our garden continued its growth peacefully, as did thousands like it in neglected spots all over the world. It…

— John Wyndham

“Professor of entomology Jeffrey Lockwood wrote that the insects streamed overhead for five days. The swarm was 1,800 miles long and at least 110…

— R. Scott Williams

“The contrast between private mushrooms and fungi-forming forest traffic might be an emblem for commoditisation more generally: the continual, never-finished cutting off of entanglement.”

— Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't…

— Quincy Jones

My team and I have discovered, over decades of study, that mushroom mycelium is a rich resource of new antimicrobial compounds, which work in…

— Paul Stamets

Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and pears on…

— Frances Mayes

Mushrooms can be very fancy. It's the closest you can get to eating dirt.

— Tom Colicchio

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

— Shirley Conran