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.

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?

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.

Do you think that anger is a sincere emotion, or just the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?

You make me feel like a stronger person and I can’t imagine a life without you in it. I need to be where you are.

Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.

But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie?

I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an ominous thing, I felt as if it was going to trickle down to me.

Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

I'm still working out my opinions - it's always a question mark. I leave loads of space open, and people don't like that.

She heard the very beginning of a smile in his voice--a fetal smile--and it very nearly killed her.

Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.

What's meant to be will always find a way.