Cary Fowler

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

— Cary Fowler

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

— Cary Fowler

The drive behind what I do is really to make sure that people don't go to bed hungry. It's not just that…

— Cary Fowler

Agriculture is in danger. The whole world is in danger. We need to learn to adapt. If we don't, we'll face catastrophic…

— Cary Fowler

At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural…

— Cary Fowler

I'm not talking about losing [agricultural] diversity in the same way that you lose your car keys. I'm talking about losing it…

— Cary Fowler

Whether we consciously realize it or not, the biodiversity with which we are most familiar, and the biodiversity with which we have…

— Cary Fowler

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

— Cary Fowler

It is impossible to talk about slowing climate change without talking about reducing CO2 emissions. Equally, it is impossible to talk about…

— Cary Fowler

We now know that we cannot continue to put ever-increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Actions have consequences. In fact, the…

— Cary Fowler

Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction--to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we…

— Cary Fowler

To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures…

— Cary Fowler

I first went into social services, and when I did my Ph.D. I looked at intellectual diversity rights as they apply to…

— Cary Fowler

To begin with, I've always known that I was a little bit different. And, I have a lot of relatives who own…

— Cary Fowler

Not all of them, but certainly there's some really, really dramatic differences among apples. And what you learn if you have that…

— Cary Fowler

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

— Cary Fowler

The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I…

— Cary Fowler