"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."

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Source : Interview with Patricia Fitzgerald, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2011.

Paul Stamets

#Unique Quotes #Mushrooms Quotes #Dozen Quotes

“Catastrophe and creation are twins.”
“I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes.”
“I think when you've been in a band for a really long time, sometimes you don't appreciate what's good about yourself. It's easy to play something and get too focused on some small detail. It's helpful to have somebody around who can say, "No, that was good." Just so you don't get too lost or forget what you do. You need somebody you really trust who has great taste.”
“Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 18, 2017
“What is life, but the gentle effacement of a tree shedding its leaves?”
“I perceived that the 'thing' and the 'idea' were taken to be equivalents of feeling, and understood the lie of the world of will and idea. Is the milk bottle the symbol of milk?”

Source : "Artists on Art: From the 14th to the 20th Centuries". Book by Robert Goldwater, p. 453, 1972.
“It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact.”

Source : Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.392
“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.”

Source : Pablo Neruda, Mikis Theodorakis (1985). “Canto general: a song of the people”

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