A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.
A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus.
Another thing cooking is, or can be, is a way to honor the things we're eating, the animals and plants and fungi that have been sacrificed to gratify our needs and desires, as well as the places and the people that produced them. Cooks have their ways of saying grace too. . . Cooking something thoughtfully is a way to celebrate both that species and our relation to it.
Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.
I had always believed government was not a fungus: It could survive in sunshine.
Why did the mushroom go to the party? Because he's a fungi!
Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration.
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
I collect spores, molds, and fungus
Fungi are the interface organisms between life and death.
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.
[Eric:] "I'm hoping that the more you see me, the more I'll grow on you. " [Sookie:] "Like a fungus?
I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.
The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.