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?

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.

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.

Before you attack the porcupine, think of its quills!

Jake thanked God he had a son to put to bed when he knew somewhere there was a family, right now, waiting for someone who would never come home.

We must have been hunters and gatherers but some of us were just waiters and hopers.

I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

I don't prepare for my roles. I don't watch movies to get inspired. I don't dig deep. I'll never be that type of actor, and I doubt that I ever will be.

In every passionate pursuit, the pursuit counts more than the object pursued.

I don't steal things. I'm rich.

I learned how to scuba dive, which is something that I've always wanted to do.

Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.