Quotes About Breeding

The thing that has not had enough attention is really thinking about how to use modern breeding techniques to really look at the germplasm pools and find ways to actually improve yields and to improve the heat and drought tolerance of these crops.

We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle or erect shopping malls and condos; planting groves of a few familiar trees that homeowners and industries prefer.

Travelling through the breeding places of our species is far from being as interesting to me as it is to inspect the breeding places of the feathery tribes of our country.

Only fifty percent of the dogs who are bred and raised

The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.

I have run tests on the handsome young man— he is fine breeding stock. After your pregnancy is finished, would you like to mate with him?" Serena took an agitated breath, fixing her mind on memories of Xavier. "Mate? Regardless of how much you study us, there are many things your machine brain will never understand about human nature." "We shall see about that," he said, calmly.

The Bene Gesserit occupied themselves with numerous breeding schemes, as if farming humanity for their own obscure purposes. They also commanded one of the greatest storehouses of information in the Imperium, using their intricate libraries to look at the broad movements of peoples, to study the effects of one person's actions amidst interplanetary politics.

They were referred to as morning calls, that endless round of formal visits that took place daily amongst the members of Society in residence in London. But the truth was that no gentleman or lady with any pretensions to breeding would dream of appearing on the doorstep of any but his or her most intimate of friends before three o'clock.

After thoroughly inspecting his domicile, I, a cat of some breeding, chose the rug beneath the tea table as my bedroom.

But humans have deliberately selected which plants and animals shall live and which shall die for thousands of years. We are surrounded from babyhood by familiar farm and domestic animals, fruits and trees and vegetables. Where do they come from? Were they once free-living in the wild and then induced to adopt a less strenuous life on the farm? No, the truth is quite different. They are, most of them, made by us.

Especially for upwardly mobile young females, declaring one's enthusiasm for Austen (whose heroines almost always move up in social and economic status as a result of the sterling marital alliances they form) has been a classic means of indicating one's purported good taste, good breeding, and good sense: I am an especially adorable member of the ruling class.

The Ramkins were more highly bred than a hilltop bakery, whereas Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving.

It was the blood: there was a turbulence in her that could not be tempered by all the good breeding of the man who had sired her

Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding would become evident in a chosen company.

Against ignorance there is no front line. Against viciousness no border can hold. It breeds as readily behind your back as elsewhere.

People of civilized countenance made much of exposing the soft underbellies of their psyche—effete and sensitive were the brands of finer breeding. It was easy for them, safe, and that was the whole point, after all: a statement of coddled opulence that burned the throats of the poor more than any ostentatious show of wealth.

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

And yet Praecursoris is not punished the same way, only because it is not practical, and he is needed for breeding?

In fact, Galton believed England's future well-being depended on a national breeding program to produce more talented humans.

When he bred them, he would discover variations among their offspring.

Burbank might produce thousands of hybrid offspring from which he might pick just a few to propagate into a new generation.

After a few years of breeding a type of lily, Burbank found a single specimen that met his standards. A rabbit ate it.

Very likely even his splendid coloration is a little too marked and would be objected to by those who put the laws of breeding above the value of personality, for it would appear that the classic pointer type should have a coat of one colour or at most with spots of a different one, but never stripes.

When crossed with Yorkshire, Hampshire, or Chester White females, the Duroc breed can create some top-rung F1 females for producing butcher stock and show pigs.