Monoculture Quotes

• 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

  Lessons, Potatoes, Kind

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• 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

  Flower, Men, Two

  Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.44, Penguin

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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

  Mistake, Healing, Diversity

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• 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

  Black, Want, Kind

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Democracy, Trying, Hollywood

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Unfortunately, we live in a time when the media are almost a monoculture.

  Orson Scott Card

  Media

  Actusf Interview, www.actusf.com. 2000.

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• 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

  Diversity, Goal, Risk

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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

  Thinking, Self, Roots

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• 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

  Country, America, Choices

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• 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

  Always Trying, Want, Empires

  "Don of the Dirtbags: An Interview with Yvon Chouinard". The Vertical Interview, theusualmontauk.com. October 22, 2016.

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• If you want a cow to be not just a cow but a milk machine, you can do a very good job at that by creating new hormones like the Bovine Growth Hormone. It might make the cow very ill, it might turn it into a drug addict, and it might even create consumer scares about the health and safety aspects of the milk. But we've gotten so used to manipulating objects and organisms and ecosystems for a single objective that we ignore the costs involved. I call this the "monoculture of the mind."

  Vandana Shiva

  Jobs, Ecosystems, Growth Hormones

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• [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

  Diversity, Doe, Culture

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• 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

  Mean, Hands, Inappropriate

  "Vandana Shiva: 'Seeds must be in the hands of farmers'". Interview with Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2013.

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• 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

  Book, Watches, Television

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• 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

  Cities, Different, Records

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When a livestock farmer is willing to "practice complexity"-to choreograph the symbiosis of several different animals, each of which has been allowed to behave and eat as it evolved to-he will find he has little need for machinery, fertilizer, and, most strikingly, chemicals. He finds he has no sanitation problem or any of the diseases that result from raising a single animal in a crowded monoculture and then feeding it things it wasn't designed to eat. This is perhaps the greatest efficiency of a farm treated as a biological system: health.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, Practice, Different

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