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.

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.

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

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?

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.

...only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them....

Hey, you know I might not be perfect! But I'm a wonderful work in progress!

I got cat class and I got cat style

People like what is not true and they don't like what is true.

Golf has always been a game where you have to control both ends of the club.

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

I was brought up in a clergyman's household so I am a first-class liar.

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

A judge found it constitutionally intolerable that Louisiana should interject 'religious beliefs and moral judgments into teaching.'

Ask yourself a question: Is my attitude worth catching?