Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kiss the ground - Rumi
Cary Fowler: "We can't solve any of the world's problems without crop diversity." Don't endow a museum in NY, endow wheat in Svalbard. -- bupbin (from TED2009, Oxford)
Biodiversity underpins ecosystem services. Bees can't pollinate, nor can trees store carbon, if they have all died. Diverse systems are better at capturing carbon, storing water and preserving fisheries. Just how diverse an ecosystem has to be in order to supply the goods and services needed by man is a matter of debate - a debate made harder by the fact that many species may have uses that man has not yet found - The Economist, 2008
The always eloquent Patrick Stewart excels himself in this passionate and moving response to a question about domestic abuse.
Where do good new ideas come from? That?s simple! From differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions. The best way to maximise differences is to mix ages, cultures and disciplines - Nicholas Negroponte
Where do good new ideas come from? That?s simple! From differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions. The best way to maximise differences is to mix ages, cultures and disciplines - Nicholas Negroponte
There is no recipe for living that suits all cases - Carl Jung
Planet Earth in this 3rd millennium needs global biologists and bio-planeticians who will be concerned with all existing life forms on the planet and their future. For example, the vanishing of a species every five hours (84,000 in the next 50 years) should be one of their main concerns - Robert Muller
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after - Oliver Goldsmith (Irish writer, poet, and physician, 1728-1774)
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kiss the ground - Rumi