Ancestors Quote by Paul Stamets

Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that…

— Paul Stamets

“Thousands of edible mushrooms grow naturally, with worldwide annual commercial production in the millions of tons.71 But check the nutrition label on a carton…

— Michael Greger

From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food!

— Paul Stamets

If you do not know where the mushroom products you are consuming are grown, think twice before eating them.

— Paul Stamets

In the past, mushrooms were maligned as nutritionally poor. Since they are about 80 to 90 percent water when fresh, their net concentrations of…

— Paul Stamets

“The most common and least expensive mushrooms—white button mushrooms—showed these strong benefits. If that’s not enough great news about mushrooms, there’s more.”

— Joel Fuhrman

“The growth patterns of mushrooms are difficult to view since they come and go so quickly, appearing and disappearing overnight as if by magic.…

— John Rush

Strange that mankind should ever have used the mushroom. All the various species of this substance are of a leathery consistence, and contain but…

— William Alcott

“Due to their soft bodies and ephemeral nature, it is unlikely that biological evidence of mushrooms will even be discovered in the archaeological record.…

— John Rush

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

— Shirley Conran

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

— Tom Colicchio

I'm obsessed with mushrooms, they're beautiful.

— Angela Scanlon