Among the Mushrooms is a a guide to mushrooms By Ellen M. Dallas and Caroline A. Burgin. "Have you not seen in the woods on a late autumn morning a poor fungus or mushroom--a plant without any solidity, nay, that seemed nothing but a soft mush or jelly--by its constant total and inconceivably gentle pushing, manage to break its way up through the frosty ground, and actually to lift a hard crust on its head? It is the symbol of the power of kindness." Emerson