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  • Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health. -- Paul Stamets
  • Mushrooms provide a vast array of potential medicinal compounds. Many mushrooms - such as portobello, oyster, reishi and maitake - are well-known for these properties, but the lion's mane mushroom, in particular, has drawn the attention of researchers for its notable nerve-regenerative properties. -- Paul Stamets
  • Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom. -- Emily Dickinson
  • Sorry, is my new Djinn name Mushroom ? Because I don't like being kept in the dark and fed bullshit, David. Just so you know. -- Rachel Caine
  • Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health." -- Paul Stamets
  • Life is too short to stuff a mushroom. -- Shirley Conran
  • I'm just some lunatic macaroni mushroom, is that it? -- Joe Pesci
  • You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom. -- Janet Erskine Stuart
  • If you do not know where the mushroom products you are consuming are grown, think twice before eating them. -- Paul Stamets
  • I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it. -- Noel Redding
  • Through trial-and-error and observable outcomes, our ancestors narrowed the field of edible mushroom candidates to just a few with remarkable, health-supporting properties. -- Paul Stamets
  • Barley and mushroom is a soothing combination. It's mainly a textural thing, with the barley both gently breaking and enhancing the mushroomy gloopiness. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Lion's mane may be our first 'smart' mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population. -- 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
  • Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option. -- Warren Bennis
  • Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud. -- Andrew Greeley
  • Chaga mycelium is relatively easy to grow by using methods already practiced elsewhere in the mushroom industry. Its mycelium is initially an off-whitish color, deepening with age. -- Paul Stamets
  • The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud. -- Condoleezza Rice
  • Never crowd a pan with too many mushrooms. They give off an enormous amount of moisture. And there's nothing worse than a braised mushroom, other than a lot of braised mushrooms. -- Simon Schama
  • I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots. -- Henry Miller
  • America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud. -- George W. Bush
  • My team and I have discovered, over decades of study, that mushroom mycelium is a rich resource of new antimicrobial compounds, which work in concert, helping protecting the mushrooms - and us - from microbial pathogens. -- Paul Stamets
  • Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities. -- Jerry Saltz
  • Agarikon contains antiviral molecules new to science. Researchers for pharmaceutical companies may have missed its potent antiviral properties. Our analyses show that the mycelial cultures of this mushroom are most active but that the fruitbodies, the natural form of the mushroom, are not. -- Paul Stamets
  • Maitake mushrooms are known in Japan as 'the dancing mushroom.' According to a Japanese legend, a group of Buddhist nuns and woodcutters met on a mountain trail, where they discovered a fruiting of maitake mushrooms emerging from the forest floor. Rejoicing at their discovery of this delicious mushroom, they danced to celebrate. -- Paul Stamets
  • In the wild, an enoki mushroom is often squat-looking and its stem is rarely more than twice as long as the cap is wide. When they are grown by farmers and hobbyists, however, their stems elongate, the caps are smaller, and a forest of golden colored needle-like mushrooms shoot up all at once. -- Paul Stamets
  • I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or mushroom to get to that next realm or level. I don't feel like anything is that tangible. It freaks me out, why I feel unhappy or conflicted and why that can change on a dime. -- Carly Pope
  • Fifty thousand dollars' worth of cabinets isn't going to make you a better cook; cooking is going to make you a better cook. At the end of the day, you can slice a mushroom in about three inches of space, and you can carve a chicken in a foot and a half. So it doesn't matter how big the kitchen is. -- Tyler Florence
  • I use as high SPF as I can get, and I live under a hat like a mushroom all the time. Someone said they're worried about their kids getting older and doing drugs, and I got this look of horror on my face and thought, 'What if my girls don't wear hats?' But at 13 months old, they could say 'hat.' -- Marcia Cross
  • You're not a man, you're a mushroom! -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom -- Janet Erskine Stuart
  • Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom." -- Thomas Carlyle
  • We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud. -- Condoleezza Rice
  • It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup. -- Tennessee Williams
  • Why did the mushroom go to the party? Because he's a fungi! -- Louis Tomlinson
  • I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then. -- John Ford
  • Don't eat a mushroom stem and see colors, eat the whole bag and see GOD -- Doug Stanhope
  • The first sign of a 'smoking gun,' they argue, may be a mushroom cloud. -- Judith Miller
  • But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief. -- Miriam Toews
  • Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters. -- George Polya
  • You have to treat yourself like a mushroom to some degree, in order to keep on discovering things. -- Christian Bale
  • One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they Al Qaeda intend. -- George Tenet
  • Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together... -- Arthur Golden
  • Other kids are brought up nice and sent to Harvard and Yale. Me? I was brought up like a mushroom. -- Frank Costello
  • Growing the mycelium of the Chaga mushroom under laboratory conditions provides an ecologically friendly alternative supply of this unique medicinal mushroom. -- Paul Stamets
  • If the bombs go off the sun will still be shining, because I've heard it said thatevery mushroom cloud has a silver lining. -- Adam Young Owl City Cave In
  • Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • But surprises were nothing new to her. Like opening a can of mushroom soup and finding tomato instead; be grateful and eat it anyway. -- Sarah Addison Allen
  • Lions mane may be our first smart mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population. -- Paul Stamets
  • It's as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough. -- Terence McKenna
  • Oh, come on. Revelation was a mushroom dream that belonged in the Apocrypha. The New Testament is basically about what happened when God got religion. -- Terry Pratchett
  • I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive. -- Grace Slick
  • This wasn't Weirdville, this was fricking Wonderland. Alice here was all grow up, but she was still chowing down on too much of that psychedelic mushroom. -- Suzanne Brockmann
  • In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • As many of you know, I came from San Francisco. We don't have a lot of farms there. Well, we do have one - it's a mushroom farm, so you know what that means. -- Nancy Pelosi
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