To sum up, agriculture has made important progress and our farmers have now shown that they are second to none in terms… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
Congress knew Coolidge would veto the farm bill. There was more politics than relief in that bill. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
It was one of the late Conservative Government's gestures towards agriculture -- graceful as a kiss, and of about as much use. — Sheila Kaye-Smith Copy Share Image
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life. — Jim Costa Copy Share Image
Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise,… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Agriculture needs to be modernized so as to give work to youth, women and men from the country. — Jovenel Moise Copy Share Image
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Youngsters inspired by Maoism have taken the gun and are spilling blood on streets, but our land needs the colour of progress… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
To Mahatma Gandhi, the key to India's progress was the development of its villages. In his unified vision, education, agriculture, village industry,… — Rajiv Gandhi Copy Share Image
Pennsylvania farmers know better than anyone how important it is to protect our planet and find sustainable ways to farm so we… — Josh Shapiro Copy Share Image
When we protect the places where the processes of life can flourish, we strengthen not only the future of medicine, agriculture and… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn… — David F. Houston Copy Share Image
All the companies I've worked for have this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunting and gathering cultures of 100,000… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
“Organic farming is environmentally friendlier to every acre of land. But it requires _more_ acres. The trade-off is a harsh one. Would… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
“. . . every society that grows extensive lawns could produce all its food on the same area, using the same resources,… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Certain elements of today's ecological crisis reveal its moral character. First among these is the indiscriminate application of advances in science and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
In many poor countries, if the daughter is told who she's going to marry, and told that she's going to live in… — Pietra Rivoli Copy Share Image
It is therefore absurd to approach the subject of health piecemeal with a departmentalized band of specialists. A medical doctor uninterested in… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
My first banjo? My mother's sister, my aunt, lived about a mile from where we did, and she raised some hogs. And… — Ralph Stanley Copy Share Image
Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports.… — John Anderson Copy Share Image
Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. They do agriculture. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
When I was agriculture minister, we drafted specific policies to tackle the agrarian crisis. — Sharad Pawar Copy Share Image
Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Missouri agriculture has a bright future, and you can see that in action through our FFA members. — Mike Parson Copy Share Image
Permacultures - where you use the immediate environment to grow food - should be mandatory. — Ian Brown Copy Share Image
The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Agriculture involves crop husbandry, animal husbandry, forestry and fisheries. Your income will go up only if you look at the system, and… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image