"Creatively worked, and suitably expanded, the human imagination can serve as an interface to entities and realities that elude the normal nets of rationality, language, and cultural symbols."
— Erik Davis, High Weirdness

"Potatoes, it seems, are both cogs in the wheel of state formation, and a spanner in the works"
— Rebecca Earle, Potato

"When the objects we use every day and the surroundings we live in have become in themselves a work of art, then we shall be able to say that we have achieved a balanced life."
— Bruno Munari, Design as Art

"Reality multiplies. When human nervous systems form relationships with molecules—or media technologies, or ritual objects—the resulting encounters flower and unfold as real differences. These differences are part of the history of the planet, though whether we think of this as natural or human history is hard to call."
— Erik Davis, High Weirdness

"Oyster mushrooms always grow from wood and are found on living trees, dying trees, or dead trees, stumps and logs; they also may grow on buried roots, appearing to grow from the soil. Although they may be found singly, Oysters typically grow in clusters that may be quite large."
— Teresa Marrone, Mushrooms of the Northeast