Quotes About Diversity

Life itself is a spectrum disorder, where each of us vibrated at some unique frequency in the continuous rainbow.

Plant-blind. Adam's curse. We only see things that look like us.

wanted to tell the man that everyone alive on this fluke little planet was on the spectrum. That's what a spectrum is. I wanted to tell the man that life itself is a spectrum disorder, where each of us vibrated at some unique frequency in the continuous rainbow.

Earth had two kinds of people: those who could do the math and follow the science, and those who were happier with their own truths.

Maybe they're not scared of different. Maybe they're scared of same. If we turn out to be too much like them, who can they be?

ecosystems tend towards diversity, and markets do the opposite

The world depends on so many different species, each a nutty experiment

We scientists are taught never to look for ourselves in other species. So we make sure nothing looks like us!

lot of folks think trees are simple things, incapable of doing anything interesting. But there's a tree for every purpose under heaven. Their chemistry is astonishing. Waxes, fats, sugars. Tannins, sterols, gums, and carotenoids. Resin acids, flavonoids, terpenes. Alkaloids, phenols, corky suberins. They're learning to make whatever can be made. And most of what they make we haven't even identified.

There are a hundred thousand species of love, separately invented, each more ingenious than the last, and every one

The several hundred kinds of hawthorn laugh at the single name they're forced to share.

people see better what looks like them.

the country's bean curve. Or else they were that mode: the fat, middle part of the graph that fell away to nothing on both coasts. They'd become an alien species to him, although he was one of them, by habit and birth.

We only see things that look like us.

Six different kinds of forest all around us. Seventeen hundred flowering plants. More tree species than in all of Europe. Thirty kinds of salamander, for God's sake. Sol 3, that little blue dot, had a lot going for it, when you could get away from the dominant species long enough to clear your head. Above us, a raven the size of an Oz winged monkey flew up into a white pine.

Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe in the future he shall be.

Priži?r?ti sodai visi panaš?s. O kiekvienas laukinis sodas laukinis savaip.

No one can ever be abandoned, anywhere, ever. Full-out, four-alarm, symphonic narrative mayhem plays out all around them. She has no idea, and there's no way he can let her know. Civilized yards are all alike. Every wild yard is wild in its own way.

It's sometimes hard to say whether a tree is a single thing or whether it's a million.

I wanted to tell the man that life itself is a spectrum disorder, where each of us vibrated at some unique frequency in the continuous rainbow.

Kids in my class think a black walnut looks just like a white ash. Are they blind?" "Plant-blind. Adam's curse. We only see things that look like us. Sad story, ain't it, kiddo?

once you enumerate them all, once you sample seven billion examples from each of seven billion humans and fit them together in their trillion trillion contexts, all things begin to come clear.

There may be ten million different species on the earth, or a hundred million species. The forest canopy is the earth's secret ocean, and it is inhabited by many living things that don't have names, and are vanishing before they have even been seen by human eyes.

I find it fascinating that this bottle is so cosmopolitan, a true multicultural brew, but it is so quiet about it.