In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.

You don't look in the eyes of a carrot seed quite in the way you do a panda bear, but it's very important diversity.

Agriculture is in danger. The whole world is in danger. We need to learn to adapt. If we don't, we'll face catastrophic consequence on a scale you cannot imagine.

At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural crops in the context of climate change and other challenges.

The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I don't know. Can fish play the piano?

Most of us take seeds for granted. The fate of human kind is resting on these genetic resources: Seeds. So nothing could be more important.

Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, but it profoundly matters that the international community takes action to conserve it.

I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the gain of a book.

I crave stillness, And yet I fear the momentStillness turns into boredom, And the moment boredomTurns into loneliness.

... the novel, arguably the author's best, had a disquieting power, like a sleeping crocodile.

Insights, after all, come from the overlap between seemingly unrelated thoughts. They emerge when concepts are transposed, when the rules of one place are shifted to a new domain.

No woman ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.

I would never disrespect any man, woman, chick or child out there. We're all the same. What goes around comes around, and karma kicks us all in the butt in the end of the day.

Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.

It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line.

Our goal, as Christians, is to dominate society

Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.