Fungus Quotes - page 2

Wildlife - and that includes everything from microbes to blue whales and from a fungus to a redwood tree - has been so much part of life on the earth that we are inclined to take its continued existence for granted...Yet the wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect. (Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh)
Which is better to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds. View quote
Aldous Huxley
The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a barnacle. View quote
Fred Allen
Fungus una nocte nascitar. View quote
Cicero
Swift Summer into the Autumn flowed, And frost in the mist of the morning rode . And plants, at whose names the verse feels loath, Filled the place with a monstrous undergrowth, Prickly, and pulpous, and blistering, and blue, Livid, and starred with a lurid dew. And agarics, and fungi, with mildew and mould Started like mist from the wet ground cold; Pale, fleshy, as if the decaying dead With a spirit of growth had been animated! Spawn, weeds, and filth, a leprous scum, Made the running rivulet thick and dumb, And at its outlet flags huge as stakes Dammed it up with roots knotted like water-snakes. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley