Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Pesci

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

O. Henry

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.

Katherine Mansfield

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....

Paul Stamets

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

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

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

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

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

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

Capt. McDonough

It could have been worse if the tree hadn't been watered.

William McDonough

Carbon in your body - that's good thing. In a tree, it's good. In the atmosphere, it's a bad. Nature wants to sequester carbon in biota. And when we burn it, we release it. It's the wrong system.

William McDonough

The eco-effective future of industry is a world of abundance that celebrates the use and consumption of products and materials that are, in effect, nutritious - as safe, effective, and delightful as a cherry tree.

Woodrow Wilson

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

Samuel Rutherford

Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree.

Willa Cather

Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.

Wangari Maathai

The planet needs trees. If there is indeed that carbon dioxide out there in the atmosphere, the only species on the planet that can actually trap it for us in a natural process of photosynthesis are the trees.

W. S. Merwin

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree

Zac Hanson

Lots and lots of trees together, equals big trees!

Andrew Wilson

I think it's tough for the young guys to really understand what the NIT is all about because nobody really grows up watching the NIT. Unless you've been there and played in it, it's hard to have a feel for how intense it is.

Woody Allen

I don't get depressed; I grow a tumor instead.

Woody Allen

I can't express anger. I grow a tumor instead.

Annie Golden

If I wrote a memoir, it would be like 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.'

Oliver Bierhoff

It's the sum of many parts which grow to be something great.

Mark Victor Hansen

You never know how much you can grow.

David Hobson

To boldly grow where no one has groan before.

Bear Grylls

As a society, we've become terrified of failure, but you can't grow without risking it.

Michael Nutter

Our economy grows from the middle out, not the top down.