Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place. — David R. Brower
The pure culture is the foundation for all research on infectious disease. — Robert Koch
Bacteria: The only culture some people have. — Hesiod
Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature. — Bill Mollison
Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque. — U.G. Krishnamurti
You plant, then you cultivate, and finally you harvest. Plant, cultivate, harvest. In today's world, everyone wants to go directly from plant to harvest. — Jeff Olson
Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative. — Vandana Shiva
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. — Mahatma Gandhi
Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves. — Confucius
Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have. — Steven Wright
When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land. — John Stuart Mill
We cultivated our land, but in a way different from the white man. We endeavored to live with the land; they seemed to live off it. I was taught to preserve, never to destroy. — Aboriginal proverbs
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. — Winston Churchill
Short Monoculture Quotes
A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy. — Bernardo Bertolucci
Unfortunately, we live in a time when the media are almost a monoculture. — Orson Scott Card
Monoculture wants you to forget that the joy of life is in the community of the village. — Bryant H. McGill
All monoculture is inherently vulnerable; from plants in gardens to people in urban centers. — Bryant H. McGill
Monocultures create mind-monopolies. — Bryant H. McGill
The zombie brand-drones of monoculture live in the grey prison cells of homogeneity. — Bryant H. McGill
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It is time to learn from the mistakes of monocultures of the mind and the essentialising violence of reductionist thought. It is time to turn to diversity for healing. — Vandana Shiva
A single, one-dimensional way of thinking has created a monoculture of the mind. And the monoculture of the mind has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is the root of why we have pitted equity against ecology and sustainability against justice. — Vandana Shiva
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 to spread everything out. And we're constantly trying to hold everything in. — 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 evolution, for species and also for whole societies. If you become a monoculture, you are at great risk of perishing. — George M. Church
Seen from a monocultural perspective, manipulating objects is very, very clever. But seen from a multidimensional perspective, from a perspective of diversity, this is extremely crude because what we have lost out on is a cow that serves as a source of sustainable energy. — Vandana Shiva
The system of seeds based on monoculture is wrong and inappropriate. The biodiverse system has produced more food, and biodiversity means that seeds must be in the hands of farmers. — Vandana Shiva
Monoculture hates small towns, artists, artisans and colorful diverse expression, preferring instead a one-size-fits-all solution. — Bryant H. McGill
Monoculture hates diversity of all types, especially diversity of opinion, and is therefore the enemy of free speech and expression. — Bryant H. McGill
What I propose for the "life of a poet" goes against the grain of the fossil fuel monoculture. Maybe the most revolutionary act these days is not to watch television and to read a book a day at least. — Anne Waldman
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 don't want to live in an elitist, progressive monoculture. — Richard Benjamin
Monoculture hates diversity of all types, especially diversity of opinion, and is therefore the enemy of free speech. — Bryant H. McGill
Monocultural forces want you to forget your childhood dreams, grow up, look the same, act the same and be the same. — Bryant H. McGill
Monocultural forces want you to forget your childhood dreams, grow up, look the same, act the same and be the same, and this is why monocultures are bigoted and intolerant of those who are different. — Bryant H. McGill
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. We're left with this bland monoculture that's swept over the whole country. — Terry Zwigoff
Monoculture wants you to forget that the joy of life is in the community of the village, where you can touch, taste, smell, feel and experience a motley potpourri of cultural vicissitudes. — Bryant H. McGill
The zombie brand-drones of monoculture live in the grey prison cells of homogeneity, dearth of the vibrancy of choice - standing in a cultural bread-line, just to stay alive. Environmentalism is about life itself, because the environment is the space where all life happens. — Bryant H. McGill
We must heal the Earth with sustainable, biodynamic, organic farming, and reject the unnatural, monoculture plant concentration camps of the industrial era of force and control. — Bryant H. McGill
The monocultural corrals-of-thought are forms of enforcement which create class-stratification through brand self-identification. — Bryant H. McGill
Consumer asceticism leads to a monoculture of deprivation, which is the opposite of diversity and openness. — Bryant H. McGill
Social monocultures suppress the wild growth that is possible in the untamed forest of innovation without limits. — Bryant H. McGill
Spiritual models for me are the communities of Tibetans living in exile in India, or the banjars of Bali, which exist in times of difficulty, oppression. Alternative spaces-perhaps this kind of communication can take place over the Net? Probably only up to a point as the Net's controlled by the military. But the idea is to live outside multi-national, monocultural, commodification prison, outside the grey areas of power-mad, monied collusion. — Anne Waldman
We should take a lesson from the Irish potato famine: monocultures are vulnerable. Monocultures of any kind are very vulnerable, because one change and you're cooked. So we should be diversifying, wouldn't you say? — Margaret Atwood
[My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will endure, and that one bland monoculture does not swamp everything. — Quentin S. Crisp
On my Instagram, I'm always keeping a record of things being pulled down in Soho and shutters being closed. Every city - and London more than anywhere - has got to be a vibrant mix of all different things. We can't allow it to become a monoculture. — Marc Almond
It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon monocultural commodity production, the clear-cutting of written and spoken English. — Stephanie Mills
Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in wild species ... Mankind has opted for monoculture; it is in the process of creating a mass civilization, as beetroot is grown in the mass. Henceforth, man's daily bill of fare will consist only of this one item. — Claude Levi-Strauss
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