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• Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night The mushroom bursts the sod. The winter comes: the frozen rut Is bound with silver bars; the white drift heaps against the hut; and night is pierced with stars.

  Coventry Patmore

  Time, Stars, Sleep

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

  Tom Colicchio

  Fancy, Dirt, Eating

  "The Hot Seat: Tom Colicchio". Interview with Billie Cohen, www.timeout.com. November 11, 2008.

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• People are going to start realizing, why take those antibiotics that are extracts of mushrooms? Why not just have the mushrooms?

  David Wolfe

  People, Why Not, Antibiotics

  "David Wolfe Interview | World authority on raw foods, superfoods and natural healing". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Marriage is like mushrooms: we notice too late if they are good or bad.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Life, Too Late

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• Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull?

  William T. Vollmann

  Dream, Night, Skulls

  William T. Vollmann (1993). “The ice-shirt”, Penguin Group USA

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• I'm glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you know what happened to me? I laid in a field of green grass for four hours going, "My God! I love everything." Yeah, now if that isn't a hazard to our country... How are we gonna justify arms dealing when we realize that we're all one?

  Bill Hicks

  Country, Law, Political

  "Shock and Awe". Live album by Bill Hicks, recorded in November 11, 1992 at The Oxford Playhouse, 2003.

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• If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Love, Toadstools, Ifs

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.1032, Delphi Classics

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• I'm just some lunatic macaroni mushroom, is that it?

  Joe Pesci

  Lunatic, Macaroni

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• The world exists, not for what it means but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms, wine is in order to be wine: things are precious before they are contributory. It is a false piety that walks through creation looking only for lessons which can be applied somewhere else. To be sure, God remains the greatest good; but, for all that, the world is still good in itself. Indeed, since He does not need it, its whole reason for being must lie in its own natural goodness; He has no use for it, only delight.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Lying, Wine, Mean

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

  Paul Stamets

  Matter, Bacteria, Underestimate

  "The Mighty Oyster Mushroom: The Workhorse of Gourmet Fungi" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.

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• The only evil that associates itself with mushrooms is taking too little.

  Terence McKenna

  Evil, Littles, Associates

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• Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work, the slower is its growth, the surer is its lasting success. Mushrooms attain their full power in a night; oaks require decades. A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries.

  William George Jordan

  Philosophy, Night, Growth

  William George Jordan (2007). “The Majesty of Calmness”, p.12, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Tree, Advice, Grows

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• Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together.

  Arthur Golden

  Two, Lovely, Together

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• 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

  Environmental Health, Oysters, Supportive

  "The Mighty Oyster Mushroom: The Workhorse of Gourmet Fungi" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.

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• 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

  Art, Nature, Years

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.80, Univ of California Press

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• Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters.

  George Polya

  Science, Discovery, Growth

  George Pólya (1948). “How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method”

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• No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You don’t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let alone a priest or even a shaman to interpret it. What you need is courage—courage to drink the brew, eat the mushroom, or whatever it is, and then to pay attention, and make of it what you will. Suddenly, the tools for direct contact with the transcendent other (whether you call it God or something else) is taken from the hands of an anointed elite and given to the individual seeker.

  Dennis McKenna

  Religious, Courage, Taken

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• 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

  Summer, Friendly, Vitamin D

  "Place Mushrooms in Sunlight to Get Your Vitamin D: Part One" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2012.

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• If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

  Terence McKenna

  Mind Blowing, Psilocybin, Psychedelic

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• We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Stupid, War, Gun

  Condoleezza Rice (2011). “No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington”, p.198, Broadway Books

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• The virus-to-cancer connection is where medicinal mushrooms offer unique opportunities for medical research.

  Paul Stamets

  Cancer, Unique, Opportunity

  "Turkey Tail Mushrooms Help Immune System Fight Cancer" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2012.

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• Rodin picks a mushroom delighted, and shows it to Madame Rodin... "Look," he says excitedly, "and that takes but a single night! In one night all these are made, all these lamellas. That is good work."

  Juan Ramon Jimenez

  Night, Rodin, Looks

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• 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

  Fall, Winter, Feet

  "Can Eating Enoki Mushrooms Lower Your Cancer Risk?" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2013.

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• But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief.

  Miriam Toews

  Weed, Grief, Buzz

  Miriam Toews (2014). “A Complicated Kindness”, p.186, Faber & Faber

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