Areas Quote by Claude Levi-Strauss

Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.

— Sue Hubbell

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

Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in…

— Albert Einstein

Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature. Bees underline the…

— Achim Steiner

It is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how…

— Laurie Colwin

As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a sustainable culture,…

— Wes Jackson

There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose bones can…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

The system of seeds based on monoculture is wrong and inappropriate. The biodiverse system has produced more food, and biodiversity means that seeds must…

— Vandana Shiva

Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in…

— Nina Fedoroff

To force a culture creates something that is inherently not sustainable. It does not evolve forward.

— Julia Hartz

“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