Agriculture Quote by Cary Fowler

We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that…

— Paul Watson

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

— Cary Fowler

Our ingenuity in feeding ourselves is prodigious, but at various points our technologies come into conflict with nature's ways of doing things, as when…

— Michael Pollan

Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean and efficient; and we…

— Louise Fresco

Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands…

— Gary Larson

“The human population is too large, and the earth too small, to sustain us in the ways our ancestors lived. Most of the land…

— Nina Fedoroff

“if you have low crop diversity, you will run into problems and require inputs, which means more technology. In the meantime, nature’s going to…

— Judith D. Schwartz

“We cannot predict the behavior of the whole, complex, connected system. We cannot know what will go wrong or right. However, we can be…

— Bill Nye

The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of…

— Vandana Shiva

Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is the No.…

— Wes Jackson

A recent review of different agricultural options for the future was conducted by a panel of experts. The scientists posed the question: How are…

— Raj Patel

Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to take its…

— E. O. Wilson