If we just stay at the crest of the mycelial wave, it will take us into heretofore unknown territories that will be just magnificent in their implications.
Paul StametsRead
If you look on the fungal genome as being soldier candidates protecting the U.S. as our host defense, not only for the ecosystem but for our population... we should be saving our old-growth forests as a matter of national defense.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of preserving old-growth forests as essential for ecosystem health and national defense against threats.
Paul Stamets suggests viewing the fungal genome as vital defenders of the ecosystem, highlighting that these organisms play a crucial role in protecting both the environment and human populations. By advocating for the conservation of old-growth forests, he frames this action as necessary for national defense, implying that healthy ecosystems are directly tied to human survival and well-being.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech at an environmental conservation event.
If we just stay at the crest of the mycelial wave, it will take us into heretofore unknown territories that will be just magnificent in their implications.
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.
Mycologists are few and far between. We are under-funded, poorly represented in the context of other sciences - ironic, as the very foundation of our ecosystems are directly dependent upon fungi, which ultimately create the foundation of soils.
The majority of modern medicines originate in nature. Although some mushrooms have been used in therapies for thousands of years, we are still discovering new potential medicines hidden within them.
Fungi are the interface organisms between life and death.
This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore.
The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were beautiful, beautiful were bank and stream, forest and rocks, goat and gold-bug, flower and butterfly. So lovely, so delightful to go through the world this way, so like a child, awake, open to what is near, without distrust.
Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
How many million Aprils came before I ever knew how white a cherry bough could be, a bed of squills, how blue And many a dancing April when life is done with me, will lift the blue flame of the flower and the white flame of the tree Oh burn me with your beauty then, oh hurt me tree and flower, lest in the end death try to take even this glistening hour.
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
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