“Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.”
“The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I don’t know. Can fish play the piano?”
— Cary Fowler
Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of food
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“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 same way that we lost the dinosaurs: actually losing it, never to be seen again.”
— Cary Fowler
Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of food
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“You don’t look in the eyes of a carrot seed quite in the way you do a panda bear, but it’s very important diversity.”
— Cary Fowler
Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of food
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