We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money.… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for… — John Salazar Copy Share Image
“American farm leaders are correct in arguing that our agriculture still must look forward to a definite ‘surplus’ problem. What they tend… — William H. Nichols Copy Share Image
Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
Take agriculture, where we haven't done much, or sanitation; saying, "okay, we will be able to make a really huge effort there."… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I was chairman of the steering committee for agriculture when we set up the target of 4% growth rate. I had written… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
E'en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain Pluck'd from the brittle stalk the golden grain, Oft have I seen the war of… — Virgil Copy Share Image
Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
If we took 75% of the world’s trashed rangeland, we could restore it from agriculture back to functioning prairies — with their… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“How could a large land empire thrive and dominate in the modern world without reliable access to world markets and without much… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
In our society, we move people out of government. It's all operated by machines, meaning – not the people, just the products:… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The sacrifices of our people were very great. Out of a population of one million, 28,000 were killed, 12,600 wounded, 10,000 were… — Enver Hoxha Copy Share Image
Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which… — Jerry Weller Copy Share Image
Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I hear from readers a good deal, and I try to answer every letter. I think, because of my commitment to issues… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
In Sub-Saharan Africa, where agriculture represents two-thirds of all employment, governments are proving that resource commitments yield success. In 2004, African heads… — Sylvia Mathews Burwell Copy Share Image
Sometimes a sound gets overused. There is such a thing as a good saxophone, but it's like those fields in agriculture -… — Thomas Mars Copy Share Image
If the U.S. became the undisputed superpower that it is today, it was primarily because of its technology, whether it is in… — N. R. Narayana Murthy Copy Share Image
Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people, and the American continent received many people whose contributions are particularly clear in… — Julius Streicher Copy Share Image
Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and… — Michael Shanks Copy Share Image
Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor;… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Clean hydrogen can play a major role in our all-of-the-above energy approach, and we're grateful to the Department of Energy for recognizing… — Doug Burgum Copy Share Image
Congress did not pass last year's 2006 budget proposals. The 2007 budget proposals are very similar, and once again unfairly target agriculture.… — Saxby Chambliss Copy Share Image
It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands...but empty cages; not traditional animal agriculture but a complete end to all commerce… — Tom Regan Copy Share Image
Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense,… — Christopher Bond Copy Share Image
That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Cities originally surrounded by a wall can produce an urban population cut off from the surrounding fields and from agriculture altogether. At… — Yehuda Levi Copy Share Image
The vision of an ag park set forth in the BioCrossroads report includes livestock, ... In addition, the vision of an ag… — Thurman Munson Copy Share Image
It's very common to implement mob grazing and double your production for a per-acre capitalisation investment... because it doesn't take any more… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Having served as Secretary of Agriculture for eight years under a previous administration as well as Governor of Iowa, there is no… — Bill Hagerty Copy Share Image
Agricultural sustainability doesn't depend on agritechnology. To believe it does is to put the emphasis on the wrong bit of 'agriculture.' What… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
At President Obama's direction, the U.S Department of Agriculture is working hard to unleash the power of America's innovators and entrepreneurs to… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
Millions and millions of people don't pay an income tax, because they don't earn enough to pay on one, but you pay… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image