Best Fungi Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.”

Whole Sky Atmosphere Gravity Decay Stink Fungi Humidity Monsoons

Book:The Things They Carried

Source: The Things They Carried

“The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.”

Has Beens Humor Funny Form Bits President Comedy Vices Advertising Agency Executives Exposed Desks Conferences Vice President Advertising Agencies Fungi

Author:Fred Allen

“So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.”

Firsts Grows Brain Growing Up Expression Generous Prudence Paralysis Fungi

Book:Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

“Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and a few birds fluttering around in the canopy. You are drastically imperiling a vast array of species within a few square miles of you. The number of these species may go to tens of thousands. Many of them are still unknown to science, and science has not yet discovered the key role undoubtedly played in the maintenance of that ecosystem, as in the case of fungi, microorganisms, and many of the insects.”

“Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.”

Knows Love Grows Morning Growing Up Solitude Plant Conclusion Soil Gray Thinker Woe Deep Thought Gardener Gloomy Damp Loveless Fungi Morose

Book:Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

Source: Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

“If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.”

Ifs Life Kind Long Earth Death Dies Given Dying Healthy All Kinds Soil Worms Impermanence Fungi Microorganisms

Book:The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

“...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.”

Humans Matter Running Earth Nature Green Plant Complexes Human Society Affluent Bacteria Veneer Fungi Biosphere Green Plants

Book:Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties

Source: Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties

“Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?”

War Fun Atheism Tomorrow Positive Atheism Yesterday Ideology Having Fun Idiocy Fungi Misdeeds

Author:Aldous Huxley

“A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.”

Critics Oaks Fungi

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“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 in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.”

Art Facts Path Activity Eating Art Is Boundaries Peculiar Moss Industrious Fungi

Book:Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies

Source: Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies

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

Party Mushrooms Fungi

Author:Louis Tomlinson

“I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the fungi.”

Knows Made Lying Tree Foundation Forests Fungi

Book:Truths Among Us: Conversations on Building a New Culture : Interviews

Source: Truths Among Us: Conversations on Building a New Culture : Interviews

“Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration.”

Planets Species Restoration Habitat Fungi Vanguard

Author:Paul Stamets

“Sometimes I worry I'm not going to be the best parent because if my baby gets a skin fungus I might sell him at a garage sale.”

Ifs Sometimes Might Parent Worry Baby Skins Sells Being The Best Garage My Baby Fungi Best Parents Garage Sale

Author:Sara Quin

“I'm obsessed with broccoli, carrots, celery, string beans, snap peas, black kale, brussels sprouts, cabbage - I could go on! They used to call me 'rabbit' when I was a kid. I hate mushrooms, though. I apologize to fungi lovers, but this way, there's more for you!”

“Fungi are the interface organisms between life and death.”

Life And Death Organisms Interfaces Fungi Between Life And Death

Book:Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

Source: Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

“Wine is one of the most complex of all beverages: the fruit of a soil, climate, and vintage, digested by a fungus through a process guided by the culture, vision, and skill of an individual man or woman.”

Men Culture Individual Process Vision Skills Wine Climate Complexes Fruit Soil Vintage Beverages Fungi

Book:The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting, second edition

Source: The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting, second edition

“While conversion of sugars to ethanol is the predominant reaction, it is only one of potentially thousands of biochemical reactions taking place during fermentation. As a result, wine contains trace amounts of a large number of organic acids, esters, sugars, alcohols, and other molecules. Wine is, in fact, one of the most complex of all beverages: the fruit of a soil, climate, and vintage, digested by a fungus through a process guided by the culture, vision, and skill of an individual man or woman.”

“Your shower shoes have fungus on them. You'll never make it to the bigs with fungus on your shower shoes. Think classy, you'll be classy. If you win 20 in the show, you can let the fungus grow back and the press'll think you're colorful. Until you win 20 in the show, however, it means you are a slob.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Shows Bigs Winning Grows Presses Shoes Having Fun Showers Colorful Fungi Durham

Author:Crash Davis

“At the time my dog had a fungus on her chest that wouldn't heal and resisted treatment. I made an ointment with our product and it cleared up in two days. She lived to 17 years.”

Years Made Two Dog Products Heal Treatment Chests My Dog Two Days Fungi

Author:William Standish Knowles

“Not being ambitious of martyrdom, even in the cause of gastronomical enterprise, especially if the instrument is to be a contemptible, rank-smelling fungus, I never eat or cook mushrooms.”

Ifs Causes Instruments Cooks Enterprise Ambitious Mushrooms Martyrdom Fungi

Author:Mary Virginia Terhune

“Teeth represent only 10 percent of the surface of your mouth and bacteria live throughout the whole mouth. When you stop brushing, bacteria left behind resettle on your teeth and gums. Oil pulling reaches virtually 100 percent of the mouth, thereby affecting all bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa in the mouth.”

Whole Left Behinds Mouths Percent Surface Oil Teeth Pulling Left Behind Viruses Gum Bacteria Brushing Fungi

Book:Oil Pulling Therapy: Detoxifying and Healing the Body Through Oral Cleansing

Source: Oil Pulling Therapy: Detoxifying and Healing the Body Through Oral Cleansing

“Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event - a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought, a flood, a blizzard, a tornado, a lightning strike, an unfamiliar breeze, a strange tingling on the neck - without immediately invoking the climate crisis. It causes earthquakes, plagues and backyard gardening disappointments. Weird fungus on your tomato plants? Classic sign of global warming.”

“I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.”

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Author:Adam Baldwin

“One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is through chemicals that affect a very broad spectrum of insects, for example, or fungicides that control fungi.”

Example Aspect Broads Chemicals Engineering Insects Beneficial Spectrum Methodology Genetic Engineering Fungi Pests

Author:Nina Fedoroff