“Together with the mechanisation of plant cultivation, industrial animal husbandry is the basis for the entire modern socio-economic order.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Agriculture's not insulated from having a percentage of people who might be really good old graziers, but they're no good as business… — Barry O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let's not pretend we're in a global free market when it comes to agriculture. Every country protects, for good reason, its agricultural… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
In addition to being a vital part of our history, agriculture is central to our growing economy and maintaining the outstanding quality… — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment. — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The most insistent and formidable concern of agriculture, wherever it is taken seriously, is the distinct individuality of every farm, every field… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There are hundreds, even thousands of remarkable pilot or experimental projects in all fields - in agriculture, health, education. But where do… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
I farm taro. I have eight varieties of taro, which is a staple of the Hawaiian people from about 2,000 years ago,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have to walk on two legs. We have to create conditions in which manufacturing and services - the economy outside agriculture… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is impossible to talk about slowing climate change without talking about reducing CO2 emissions. Equally, it is impossible to talk about… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally… — David F. Houston Copy Share Image
In antiquity, agriculture and industry depended completely on human labor; but now, with the development of natural forces that human labor cannot… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We could replace people with fossil fuels, have higher and higher levels of industrialization, of agriculture, of production, without thinking of the… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Because of the industrialization of agriculture -- using massive amounts of fossil fuel -- only 2 percent of Americans work in farming.… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction--to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
There are a lot of products still to be discovered in the world and experimentation, for example with seafood and fish. There… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
“In Scandanavia, 'Iverson finds that the whole spectrum of pollen deposits is altered when (in early Neolithic times) ... the first farmers… — Russell Lord Copy Share Image
When a livestock farmer is willing to "practice complexity"-to choreograph the symbiosis of several different animals, each of which has been allowed… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
The Department of Agriculture plays an integral role in supporting New Mexico's farms - from small family farms to large agricultural operations. — Ben Ray Lujan Copy Share Image
We have built cities, developed industry and cultivated agriculture - we have transformed the State of Israel into an example and symbol… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
At least I sure hope it will - and I see good signs all the time, especially in things like the rise… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The origin of agriculture involved both human intentionality and a set of underlying ecological and evolutionary principles. — Kent V. Flannery Copy Share Image
Since nature has the most sustainable ecosystem and since ultimately agriculture comes out of nature, our standard for a sustainable world should… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
Agriculture is in danger. The whole world is in danger. We need to learn to adapt. If we don't, we'll face catastrophic… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
Because Iran understands Afghanistan far better than Americans do, making Iran a partner in a long-term effort to transform Afghan agriculture makes… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Earth is here so kind [Australia], that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. — Douglas Jerrold Copy Share Image
“He cannot wisely consent to spend the best years of his life in getting ready to live.” — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
I support a robust economy where agriculture and businesses are able to compete in a fair and open global market. — Ryan Zinke Copy Share Image
Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers,… — Horace Copy Share Image
For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than # agriculture — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn’t need us? What in the hell would they do with the… — Dwayne Andreas Copy Share Image