Culture Quotes - Page 25

More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to a lot of radiation, which causes DNA damage, which gets repaired, but results in mutations, which create a ready mixture of plants that people can choose from to improve agriculture.

The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.

Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.

But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.

Now, when you look at somebody, it's not simply, 'Are you like me or unlike me? Has your culture produced great artists? What are your rituals?' It's: 'Is your culture safe or not? Will it produce terrorists?'

Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture.

To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not.

Since nature has the most sustainable ecosystem and since ultimately agriculture comes out of nature, our standard for a sustainable world should be nature's own ecosystem.

I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It's kind of untouched, it's not Americanized.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

The reduction of the earth to an object simply for human's use/ possession is unthinkable in most traditional cultures... the earth belongs to itself and to all the component members of the community.

Culture is like the current of the ocean. Where has it taken your marriage?

I have friends who are majorly into the cosplay culture and have urged me to go to a convention for no other reason than to meet others like me.

I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion, or devotion.

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

Great food, like all art, enhances and reflects a community’s vitality, growth and solidarity. Yet history bears witness that great cuisines spring only from healthy local agriculture.

The world's five thousand extant languages are products of our shared ability, but the five thousand cultures they create are separate from each other.

It is now 14 years since I first suggested that organic farming might have some benefits and ought to be taken seriously. I shall never forget the vehemence of the reaction.. much of it coming from the sort of people who regard agriculture as an industrial process, with production as the sole yardstick of success.

Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves

Culture eats Christianity for breakfast.

There are no miracles in agricultural production.

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.

The culture that's going to survive in the future is the culture that you can carry around in your head.