“If India alone had rejected the high-yielding varieties of the Green Revolution, another 100 million acres of farmland—an area the size of California—would have had to be plowed to produce the same amount of grain. That unfarmed land now protects the last of the tigers.”
― Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Foods
― Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Foods
“Well, I was going to tell you about a dream I had about dragons. They were purple and pretty and liked to sing songs." She flicks my armor with a finger. It rings. "Way to upstage me, Jerk. What happened?"
"I got mad."
She groans, I've become the maiden in distress, haven't I? Slag! I hate those girls.”
― Red Rising
"I got mad."
She groans, I've become the maiden in distress, haven't I? Slag! I hate those girls.”
― Red Rising
“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
― Ender's Game
― Ender's Game
“The secret to being unafraid of the darkness is to challenge the darkness to fear you, to raise your eyes sharp to those few souls who stagger by, daring them to believe that you are not, in fact, more frightening than they are.”
― The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
― The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
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