"Even if you planted one without disease tolerance, it would tolerate ice and salt, air pollution, drought, some degree of flooding," he said.
And, while I am happy to accept its plea for mutual tolerance, it is a distinctly loaded affair.
If the trust was concerned about its reputation for inclusiveness and tolerance, it couldn't have got things more badly wrong.
But its commercial bustle, intellectual ferment and atmosphere of tolerance (it harbored one of Russia's largest Jewish populations) were accompanied by darker impulses.
But while Shinn's play has a passionate sincerity and demolishes the myth that we live in a cosy new world of sexual tolerance, it can't help feeling a bit cloistered in its preoccupation with the politics of persecution.
Cohesion, tolerance – it is not what they want to see.
"I figured with her tolerance, it wouldn't be lethal," he said.
And I was touched by the beauty and tolerance it has taken to fashion America.
"The tolerance it took decades to build up has been torn down in a matter of a few months".
The pressure this creates tests more than our tolerance — it demands that we promote peaceful coexistence and understanding across boundaries.
Besides, in a show suffused with messages of inclusivity and tolerance, it would never do for audiences to laugh at someone just because he came from Vulcan.
