Mushrooms are one of the most fascinating members of the plant world, and people have used them since the early days.
Some species of mushrooms are excellent sources of nutrients. But the wrong kind can prove highly harmful to health.
Their sudden appearance after a satisfying summer rain is mesmerizing. Some people find mushrooms to have a lovely taste and feel a meal without mushrooms is disappointing. These thought-provoking mushroom quotations intend to draw the readers' attention to learn more about them.
In truth, mushrooms are not only delicious but also adorable and amusing. Mushrooms are still essential to a chef's life and kitchen. Environmentalists and biologists both adore them.
Politicians and historians use mushroom references in their writing and speeches. The well-known American mycologist and business person Paul Stamets greatly supports mushrooms and fungi.
Former president of America George W. Bush and the diplomat Condoleezza Rice mentioned mushroom clouds in their speech. So, what are you waiting for? Start your mushroom journey with these delightful, inspiring, and funny mushroom quotations!
Funny Mushroom Quotes
The hilarious mushroom quotes of Arthur Golden will make you laugh.
(Mushrooms symbolize life growing out of dead plant matter. This and more Mushroom Quotes here at Kidadl.)
"Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together."
― Arthur Golden.
"Falling in love is like eating mushrooms, you never know if it's the real thing until it's too late."
― Bill Ballance.
"The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants—/ At the Evening, it is not—/ At Morning, in a Truffled Hut/ It stops upon a Spot."
― Emily Dickinson, 'The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants'.
"You have to treat yourself like a mushroom to some degree, in order to keep on discovering things".
― Christian Bale Order, 'Interview with John H. Richardson', www.esquire.com, November 15, 2010.
"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.
"A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain."
― John Cage
"Wherever there were horses or ponies, the mushrooms always sprang up".
― 'The Light of Evening', Edna O'Brien (2007).
"If our mushrooms make you hallucinate, please inform us immediately so we can overcharge you."
― Scott Adams.
"Advice is like mushrooms. The wrong kind can prove fatal".
― Charles E. McKenzie.
Adorable Mushroom Quotes
These endearing mushroom quotes will enhance your mood and give the lesson of co-existence.
"We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."
―Condoleezza Rice,'No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington', p.198, 2011.
"The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world."
― John Tyler.
"Mushrooms can have lasting effect on pollution, chemical waste and possibly even plastic consumption. It is not without basis that people are questioning today – can mushrooms save the world?"
–Francesca Gavin, 'Golden Teachers: Can Mushrooms Save the World?',www.032c.com, March 20, 2020.
"If bacteria can be pictured as teeming black ants under the microscope, imagine fungi as gossamer spider webs. These organisms form long threads called hyphae that stretch between plant roots. Some form into even larger masses called mycelium that can span an entire backyard."
― Amy Stewart, 'Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms'.
"Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters."
― George Polya, 'How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method'.
"The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves."
― Erin Morgenstern.
"Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom."
― 'The Letters of Emily Dickinson', Emily Dickinson.
"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.
"TIME WENT ON, life with the children unfolding in its own ecosystem, small plastic toys seeming to grow up from the carpet like mushrooms, clothes falling to the floor like fall leaves."
― Erica Bauermeister,'Joy For Beginners'.
Delicious Mushroom Quotes
Read these mushroom quotes to know that the regular habit of eating mushrooms is good for your health.
"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, July 11, 2013, 'My List: Martha Stewart', Interview with Emily Cronin.
"Mushrooms have many helpful nutrients, including beta-glucans for immune enhancement, ergothioneine for antioxidative potentiation, nerve growth stimulators for helping brain function, and antimicrobial compounds for limiting viruses."
― Paul Stamets,'Place Mushrooms in Sunlight to Get Your Vitamin D: Part One', www.huffingtonpost.com, July 2, 2012.
"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 am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in."
― Charles Dickens, 'Spooky Christmas: 30+ Supernatural & Eerie Tales'.
"Mushrooms can be very fancy. It's the closest you can get to eating dirt."
― Tom Colicchio.
"I am fond of mushrooms (out of a field); have a very simple sense of humor (which even my appreciative critics find tiresome); I go to bed late and get up late (when possible)."
― J. R. R. Tolkien,'Letter to Deborah Webster', October 25, 1958.
"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.
"Its interesting, isn't it . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup."
― Tennessee Williams.
"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."
― 'Imaginations', p.31, William Carlos Williams (1971).
Mushroom Quotes by Paul Stamets
These unique mushroom quotes tell us that mushrooms are even more exciting companions than we believe.
"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."
― 'The Mighty Oyster Mushroom: The Workhorse of Gourmet Fungi.'
"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."
― 'Maitake: The Magnificent ‘Dancing’ Mushroom.'
"Culture 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."
― 'Chaga, the Clinker Fungus: This Mushroom Looks Scary But Can Benefit Health'.
"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".
― November 2, 2011, 'Interview with Patricia Fitzgerald', www.huffingtonpost.com.
"Growing the mycelium of the Chaga mushroom under laboratory conditions provides an ecologically friendly alternative supply of this unique medicinal mushroom."
― 'Chaga, the Clinker Fungus: This Mushroom Looks Scary But Can Benefit Health'.
"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."
"If you do not know where the mushroom products you are consuming are grown, think twice before eating them."
―'Turkey Tail Mushrooms Help Immune System Fight Cancer', www.huffingtonpost.com, June 5, 2012.
"From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food!"
― 'The Mighty Oyster Mushroom: The Workhorse of Gourmet Fungi'.
