Action Quote by Cary Fowler

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

— 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

Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

— David R. Brower

Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields…

— John F. Kerry

For generations, farmers in Central Virginia and across the United States have engaged in voluntary conservation practices that have not only improved crop quality,…

— Abigail Spanberger

I'd just rather not reap a crop every year.

— Sharon Kay Penman

2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity. We can classify our crops into those which are climate resilient and those which are climate sensitive.…

— M. S. Swaminathan

What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.

— Plato

Nobody is suggesting climate change won't negatively impact crop yields. It could. But such declines should be put in perspective.

— Michael Shellenberger

The preservation of biodiversity is not just a job for governments. International and non-governmental organisations, the private sector and each and every individual have…

— Kofi Annan

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