"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."

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Source : "Will the Copenhagen Climate Talks Connect Two 150-Year-Old Dots?" by Cary Fowler, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

Cary Fowler

#Diversity Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Climate Quotes

“Historically, education has been about batch processing: standardize everything against the average, rank kids, sort them to see who gets more and who really doesn't deserve to be there. The problem, even if you're just being selfish from an economic standpoint, is we're not producing the talent we need.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind”
“There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.”

Source : Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (2009). “Zoe: The History of Two Lives”, p.145, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.”
“But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.”

Source : "Toby Jones: dial H for Hitchcock". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. December 09, 2012.
“We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.”

Source : Alan Chadwick (2008). “Performance in the Garden: A Collection of Talks on Biodynamic French Intensive Horticulture”, Logosophia
“Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.”
“I think my criticism of the Pentecostal tradition that I heard with my sister's church was that it wasn't always audible. You couldn't quite figure out what was going on. And then, the people would very often do what they call speaking in tongues and I didn't know what they were saying. My father used to always say that if it can't be understood, then it's not the good news or not the gospel.”

Source : Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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