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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
If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. -- Katherine Mansfield
From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food! -- Paul Stamets
I look forward to the spring vegetables because the season is so short. Mushrooms, edible foraged herbs, wild leeks, early season asparagus. -- David Chang
Kids are now eating things like edamame and sushi. I didn't know what shiitake mushrooms were when I was 10 - most kids today do. -- Emeril Lagasse
Mushrooms have many helpful nutrients, including beta glucans for immune enhancement, ergothioneines for antioxidative potentiation, nerve growth stimulators for helping brain function, and antimicrobial compounds for limiting viruses. -- Paul Stamets
The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms! -- Robert Walpole
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
Mushrooms can be very fancy. It's the closest you can get to eating dirt. -- Tom Colicchio
Mushrooms grow on cow turds. I love that. I think that's why you giggle the first hour. -- Bill Hicks
Just Enough Soil for legs Axe for hands Flower for eyes Bird for ears Mushrooms for nose Smile for mouth Songs for lungs Sweat for skin Wind for mind. -- Nanao Sakaki
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
Evan ran his finger across the faded leather spines. He laughed at how silly some of the names were: Paint Your Roses Red, Edelweiss and Me, World of Mushrooms and Fungi, The Toadstool Diaries, Daffodils Unseen and Exotic Plants Unleashed, to name but a few. -- H.B. Bolton
You're not a man, you're a mushroom! -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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
We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud. -- Condoleezza Rice
The virus-to-cancer connection is where medicinal mushrooms offer unique opportunities for medical research. -- Paul Stamets
I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then. -- John Ford
Falling in love is like eating mushrooms, you never know if it's the real thing until it's too late. -- Bill Ballance
Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards. -- Bradley Chicho
The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world. -- John Tyler Bonner
Enoki mushrooms, a tasty variety commonly sold in grocery stores, were one of the first mushrooms studied for preventing cancer. -- Paul Stamets
Vitamin D from mushrooms is not only vegan and vegetarian friendly, but you can prepare your own by exposing mushrooms to the summer sun. -- Paul Stamets
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
As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter. -- Victoria Moran
I've always thought fairies are like mushrooms, you trip over them when you're not thinking about them, but they're hard to spot when you're searching for them. -- Jo Walton
One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers. -- Mark Thomas
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
The majority of modern medicines originate in nature. Although some mushrooms have been used in therapies for thousands of years, we are still discovering new potential medicines hidden within them. -- 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
Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation that looks like a bursting tumor. -- Paul Stamets
Most people only use their griddles for pancakes, but you can sear vegetables like sliced zucchini or mushrooms, thinly sliced meats like chicken or pork, or thinly sliced fish or squid. -- Jose Andres Puerta
Tender and sweet, Manila clams partner well with a wide variety of foods - white wine, sake, beer, butter, leeks, fresh herbs, roasted peppers, olives, and wild mushrooms, to name a few. -- Tom Douglas
I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine with porcini mushrooms, soft-shell crabs, spinach from the garden, and lemon tarts with fraises des bois for dessert. -- Martha Stewart
I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out. -- Evan Dando
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
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
Today, reishi stands out as one the most valuable of all polypore mushrooms in nature for the benefit of our health. Many naturopaths and doctors prefer organically-grown reishi from pristine environments because they are more pure. -- Paul Stamets
Known colloquially as 'winter,' 'golden needle,' and 'velvet foot' mushrooms, enoki mushrooms grow across much of the world, inhabiting dead conifer trees and stumps, and generally appearing throughout the late fall and winter months. -- Paul Stamets
I have a fear of things growing on things. I don't know where it came from. But I go hiking a lot, and sometimes I can't handle moss growing on trees or tumors on trees or mushrooms. -- Lara Jean Chorostecki
Of all mushrooms commonly consumed, oyster mushrooms in the genus Pleurotus stand out as exceptional allies for improving human and environmental health. These mushrooms enjoy a terrific reputation as the easiest to cultivate, richly nutritious and medicinally supportive. -- 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 nutrients can be underestimated. Like grains, however, mushrooms should be weighed when dry to get their correct nutrient value. -- Paul Stamets
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! -- Lisa Edelstein
We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name. -- Bruce Sterling
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
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
One of the first houses we lived in was like out of a fairy story. We had a stream that ran through our garden, and we played with the ducks - we locked them in my mum's office, and they pooed everywhere. It was crazy, picking blackberries and mushrooms, rabbits running through your legs. -- Emilia Clarke
I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it. -- Noel Redding
A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain. -- John Cage
Advice is like mushrooms. The wrong kind can prove fatal. -- Charles E. McKenzie
Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up. -- A. R. Ammons
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The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves. -- Erin Morgenstern
The only evil that associates itself with mushrooms is taking too little. -- Terence McKenna
Marriage is like mushrooms: we notice too late if they are good or bad. -- Woody Allen
Come on sempai, would you please stop growing mushrooms in other people's closets? -Haruhi -- Bisco Hatori
Does it follow that because there are poisonous toadstools which resemble mushrooms, both are dangerous? -- Marianne Moore
Consuming mushrooms regularly has been associated with decreased risk of breast, stomach and colorectal cancers. -- Joel Fuhrman
...but I also can't prove that mushrooms could not be intergalactic spaceships spying on us. -- Daniel Dennett
If our mushrooms make you hallucinate, please inform us immediately so we can overcharge you. -- Scott Adams
I experimented with weed, Ecstasy, mushrooms and mescaline for about a year and a half. -- Melissa Joan Hart
Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit. -- Terry Pratchett
Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull? -- William T. Vollmann
Don't you wanna grow up to be just like me, I slap women and eat mushrooms then OD. -- Eminem
From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food!" -- Paul Stamets
I remember taking mushrooms at the wrap party, it was like the first and last time I took that. -- Pauly Shore
I have the same opinion of dances that physicians have of mushrooms: the best of them are good for nothing. -- Saint Francis de Sales
DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back. -- Spencer Wells
People are going to start realizing, why take those antibiotics that are extracts of mushrooms? Why not just have the mushrooms? -- David Wolfe
Last week, I suggested the candidates take up mushrooms. I'll be damned if Rick Perry didn't take me up on that. -- Bill Maher
I respect Shigeru Miyamoto, so there will be a lot of mushrooms in Metal Gear Solid 3. But you cannot eat turtles. -- Hideo Kojima
Lion's mane mushrooms are not your classic-looking cap-and-stem variety. These globular-shaped mushrooms sport cascading teeth-like spines rather than the more common gills. -- Paul Stamets
I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things. -- John D. Voelker
As far as the Council is concerned, the U.S. Wardens are a bunch of mushrooms." "Eh?" "Kept in the dark and fed on bullshit. -- Jim Butcher
While reishi mushrooms have historically been prepared as teas or infusions, other modern preparations include capsules, tinctures, and fractionated extracts of mushrooms, mycelium, and spores. -- Paul Stamets
I learned more about psychology in the five hours after taking these mushrooms than in the preceding 15 years of studying and doing research in psychology. -- Timothy Leary
Although oyster mushrooms have been studied extensively and support health in a number of ways, it is also extremely important to always cook oyster mushrooms! -- Paul Stamets
Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm. They cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable, or mineral. -- Joni Mitchell
My name is Frank Iero and I hate mushrooms. All mushrooms. No matter how they're prepared, I feel like they're all slimy and they taste like dirt. -- Frank Iero
Traditionally, our ancestors boiled mushrooms in water to make a soothing tea. Boiling served several purposes: killing contaminants, softening the flesh, and extracting the rich soluble polysaccharides. -- Paul Stamets
Although the trends are promising and reishi mushrooms exhibit a number of interesting medicinal properties, modern scientific techniques have yet to affirm its traditional 'panacea polypore' status. -- Paul Stamets
Do you think it's possible that when we're on something like marijuana or mushrooms and we believe we're having a really spiritual experience that we're just high? -- Bill Maher
On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive. -- Donal Henahan
people like to keep their little secrets to themselves. It's like growing mushrooms in the cellar and running down to take a look at them now and then. -- Marjorie Kellogg
Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
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. -- Mary Virginia Terhune
Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born. -- Denis Diderot
But time in only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there'll be mushrooms, fairy-ring mushrooms in the grass, sweetest of all fungi. -- William Carlos Williams
I'm a vegetarian who doesn't like eggplant parmesan. Isn't that awful? I'm also sick of portobello mushrooms. People are like, 'A vegetarian's coming to dinner,' so they serve those. -- Candy Crowley
The history of human use of plants, mushrooms, and animals for their psychedelic effects is far older than written history, and probably predates the appearance of the modern human species. -- Rick Strassman
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Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. -- J. K. Rowling
If you treat your employees like mushrooms (keep them in the dark and regularly throw crap on them), it's entirely likely you will get precisely the work you deserve in return. -- Seth Godin
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 have to mime at parties when everyone sings Happy Birthday... Mime or mumble and rumble and growl and grunt so deep that only moles, manta rays and mushrooms can hear me. -- Stephen Fry
But one day we shall be rich, and the next poor. One day we shall dine in a palace and the next we'll sit in a forest and toast mushrooms on a hatpin.... -- Katherine Mansfield
Over the years I've tweaked my stuffing recipe many times, adding a variety of ingredients like sauteed wild mushrooms, dried cherries, fresh chevre, toasted hazelnuts, chopped ham hock meat, and other taste treats. -- Tom Douglas

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