Fungus Quotations

Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by the annual loss of an area of rain forest the size of New Jersey. Less rain falls, and the water runs into the rivers instead of being sucked up by the fungus filaments and tree roots.

It's the little details I love. How to fletch your arrows with owl feathers, because owls fly silently, so maybe your arrows will, too. How to carry fire in a piece of smouldering fungus wrapped in birchbark. These are the things which help a world come alive.

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.

I change my socks often, because I had bad bouts of athlete's foot fungus infections as a kid. I may be able to change socks less frequently and not get the fungus. But, I'd rather not run the test to determine just how infrequently I could change socks. I don't feel superstitious about it.

Surveying these fields will provide information to get the big picture of how this fungus behaves in this part of the world. We know it's caused major losses in Asia and other parts of the world, but we don't really know how it will affect crops here. The weather and prevailing winds this spring will play a big role in what happens, but if South Texas bean crops have a rough year with soybean rust, there will be the potential for a bad year further north.

We're still trying to determine what the exact risk might be. We're looking at a number of different things ? hygiene practices, environment, if there was any product contamination, if there is something about certain solutions that makes the fungus grow. If people are concerned, as always, we suggest they talk with their eye care professional.

We are seeing the problems across the board. The fungus took advantage of the rain quicker than the grass.

They already have fungus on their skin and some have infections, and we have a few cases of people with diarrhea,

Something like toenail fungus -- you can't fake that kind of stuff. But people will try to on things like age.

These people should not be around large amounts of molds because they probably can get an invasive disease; a small number, but they get an invasive disease and then you have fungus growing in your lung, in another organ, and that is very serious and difficult to treat.

The fungus is the cause of a lot of the massive die-offs we're seeing in recent years,

The fungus is knocking out species...It impedes the ability of their skin to absorb oxygen and just suffocates them. It's the equivalent of us ingesting a fungus that takes over our lungs,