Attention Quote by Alan Jacobs

Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

There's no choice left in America anymore. Anything that's authentic and genuine, anything that grew out of any sense of tradition, is wiped out.…

— Terry Zwigoff

We should take a lesson from the Irish potato famine: monocultures are vulnerable. Monocultures of any kind are very vulnerable, because one change and…

— Margaret Atwood

Nature doesn't like empires. It doesn't like accumulation in one place, it doesn't like monoculture. It's always trying to make diverse species. It wants…

— Yvon Chouinard

The main goal is to increase diversity. The one thing that is bad for society is low diversity. This is true for culture or…

— George M. Church

I don't want to live in a monoculture of any kind. I don't want to live in a wealthy monoculture, a black monoculture. I…

— Richard Benjamin

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

— Bernardo Bertolucci

It is time to learn from the mistakes of monocultures of the mind and the essentialising violence of reductionist thought. It is time to…

— Vandana Shiva

What I propose for the "life of a poet" goes against the grain of the fossil fuel monoculture. Maybe the most revolutionary act these…

— Anne Waldman

When I grew up, there was a monoculture. Everybody listened to the same music on the radio. I miss monoculture. I think it's good…

— Robert Christgau

“Monoculture wants you to forget that the joy of life is in the community of the village, where you can touch, taste, smell, feel…

— Bryant McGill

[My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will endure, and…

— Quentin S. Crisp

The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting the art…

— Tristram Stuart

“from a soil microorganism point of view, a crop monoculture is akin to junk food: “If there’s just wheat or any one thing, it’s…

— Judith D. Schwartz

When a livestock farmer is willing to "practice complexity"-to choreograph the symbiosis of several different animals, each of which has been allowed to behave…

— Michael Pollan