"In the end, fungi will destroy everything that humans have ever created. Driving monuments to the Earth, it is the fungi that will carry life through the cruelest acts that humans perpetrate against Nature and redefine spaces for plants, animals, and the wild to thrive.
Fungi set the time limit on human productions, a law resisted by past civilizations that built their greatest monuments from stone. To gain time, ancient people had to fight the unstoppable force of fungal decay.
Thus, as the ultimate harbingers of death, fungi not only symbolize the impermanence of an individual, but also the fragility of one's way of life, with each hypha slowly decaying the hourglass of a culture's legacy."
— Peter McCoy, Radical Mycology: A Treatise on Seeing & Working With Fungi