Jon Katz

It's easy to see why dog rescue is a mushrooming culture. Turning a troubled person's life around is difficult, but rescuers with commitment and time and a few dollars can radically alter the fate of a dog. And there are millions of dogs - nearly 10 million in the shelter system, many others mistreated in private homes - in need of rescuing.

American Journalist

Evan Dando

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.

American Musician

Henry Miller

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.

American Author

Itzhak Perlman

I'm a mushroom freak. I make a mushroom soup where I use maybe six or seven varieties, not just portobello and shiitake, but dried porcini and morels.

Israeli Musician

Andrew Greeley

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.

American Clergyman

John Tyler Bonner

The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world.

American Educator

Tierra Whack

I hate olives. They're so nasty. I hate everything about olives. Mushrooms, too.

Janet Erskine Stuart

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

English Poet

JaVale McGee

Dinner is usually just pasta with mushrooms.

American Athlete

Shirley Conran

British Journalist

Some mushrooms are edible and prized for their taste, but others can be poisonous.

Edible Varieties

Mushrooms are used in various cuisines worldwide and can be prepared in many ways.

Culinary Use

Mushrooms are often used in vegetarian dishes as a meat substitute due to their texture.

Vegetarian Ingredient

To 'mushroom' means to grow quickly and suddenly, often in an unexpected way.

Rapid Growth

When something mushrooms, it spreads out rapidly to cover a wide area.

Expansive Spread

A 'mushroom cloud' is a distinctive shape, usually associated with explosions.

Specific Shape

'Mushroom cloud' often carries negative connotations related to nuclear explosions.

Associated with Danger

Descriptive use implies something has the rounded shape of a mushroom.

Visual Similarity

Mushroom-shaped objects can add a playful or whimsical touch to designs.

Playful Tone

 even the parts that aren't digested become part of the structure, we're getting incredible yield rates. Natural polymers, well ... I think that's what's most important, because these polymers have been tried and tested in our ecosystem for the last billion years, in everything from mushrooms to crustaceans.

Eben Bayer: Are...

 these mushrooms the bottom line is we evolved to put our heads together and indeed I think the one thing I was trying to think of this how to end this this morning and I thought to myself what do you really learned Helen and this I think is the most important thing

Love and hormones PIPE...

 and joyful people -- the more and more joyful people there are, the more and more we'll have a joyful world. We have a network for grateful living, and it has mushroomed. We couldn't understand why it mushroomed. We have an opportunity for people to light a candle

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 a different perspective and saying looks let's take advantage of what the natural world can already do to me that's just fascinating i think it's unlimited what we can do with mushrooms once we know more about the different varieties that are out there

You Didn’t Know...

 urns that sprout trees, and burial suits that grow mushrooms. Eternal reefs take that concept to the depths of the ocean using a mixture of ashes and cement to create marine habitats for sea life. Death is an inevitable part of the human condition,

What happens to our...

 And in many of our own life decisions, we use information gained from past experience and our surroundings to narrow down our choices to the best options so that maybe next time, we can avoid eating that poisonous mushroom in the first place.

Can you solve the frog...

 their eyes glaze over, and they think I'm a little crazy. So, I hope to pierce that prejudice forever with this group. We call it mycophobia, the irrational fear of the unknown, when it comes to fungi. Mushrooms are very fast in their growth.

6 ways mushrooms can...

 It's also a step towards taking responsibility for my own burden on the planet. Growing a mushroom is also part of a larger practice of cultivating decomposing organisms called decompiculture, a concept that was developed by an entomologist,

Jae Rhim Lee: My...

 creatures and will settle on the ground to grow and produce the mushrooms we're most familiar with but some parasitic funky like types of masosporer and cordyceps have a different more sinister purpose once they land on insects like these

This Fungus Turns...

 are trying to attract a particular fly which helps the plants pollinate these flies usually attracted to the mushrooms help spread the orchids pollen there by aiding reproduction orchid are plentiful