You can’t see us but we flourish all around you. Everywhere. In everything. And even inside you. Whether you believe in us or not. From your first breath to your last, in darkness and in the light, we are the oldest and youngest, we are the largest and smallest, we are the wisdom of a billion years. We are creation. We are resurrection. And condemnation. And regeneration. We are mushrooms. Fantastic Fungi: The Magic Beneath Us, Netflix 2019
Mushrooms are clandestine and very much the trickster. So they’re hiding from you all the time. ibid. Paul Stamets, mycologist
Mushrooms represent regrowth, rejuvenation, regeneration. Fungi generate soil that gives life. ibid.
These threads grow one cell at a time … even three-dimensionally. That mass of threads is called a mycelium. ibid. mycologist
Plants die. Animals die. Fungi inherits the Earth … We are descendants of mycelium. ibid.
They correct everything on Earth. They support life. They convert life. They carry life. They are remarkable beings. If humans become extinct, what’s the next species to take over the Earth? ibid.
The root system trades that carbon for nutrients. ibid.
The entire ecosystem is infused with fungi. ibid. Stamets
You realise that you’ve been limited all this time with your perspective of reality. ibid.