Change Quote by Michael Pollan

“Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to…

— Azar Nafisi

“Cultures are not matters of taste but systems of adaptation to specific circumstances that may prove irrelevant or even counterproductive in other settings.”

— James Dale Davidson

A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress

— Kate Burridge

Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.

— Roger L'Estrange

“culture that obliges people to realise some possibilities while forbidding others. Biology enables women to have children – some cultures oblige women to realise…

— Yuval Noah Harari

If someone says that they have to 'tolerate' cultural differences and cultural groupings different from themselves then that may make it difficult, at the…

— Alison Assiter

Plants, like people, are social or anti-social: the good plant has to be able to live amicably with other plants in the border.

— Richardson Wright

Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any…

— Rachel Carson

“When it is proclaimed that one must become more “sensitive” to various ethnic, linguistic, sexual, or lifestyle groups, neither a reason nor a definition…

— Thomas Sowell

To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.

— Friedrich Nietzsche