If we don't get sustainability right in agriculture first, it won't happen anywhere. — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization.” — Richard Manning Copy Share Image
The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
The Agriculture Committee was one of my top committee choices because it will give me the platform to be an even stronger… — Jeff Van Drew Copy Share Image
To me, one of the easiest ways of addressing climate change and potentially remedying climate change is to stop subsidizing animal agriculture. — Moby Copy Share Image
It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged… — David F. Houston Copy Share Image
Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive. — David Holmgren Copy Share Image
When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
It is beyond time for Congress to stand up for U.S. farmers and confront the influence China has on the U.S. Agriculture… — Anna Paulina Luna Copy Share Image
We have to rethink how we're going to live on this earth - stop talking about the fact that we've got to… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One imputation in particular has been repeated till it seems as if some at least believed it: that I am an enemy… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
It is now 14 years since I first suggested that organic farming might have some benefits and ought to be taken seriously.… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and… — Allan Savory Copy Share Image
Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“That one American farmer can now feed himself and fifty-six other people may be, within the narrow view of the specialist, a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
National Permaculture Day is a chance to share thoughts, visions and lots of common sense ways that we can all make a… — Costa Georgiadis Copy Share Image
Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
He thus reaps the full fruits which result from his toil and labors with the incentive of free enterprise to maximize his… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Proper turkey preparation is critical. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more Americans die every year from eating improperly cooked turkey… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I carry in my datebook a piece of paper that my mother copied out for me, from the 1840 Census. Hardy Callaway… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
It's an attitude of superiority. We are superior to the rest of life. The Book of Genesis says: 'Increase and multiply and… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
We can change our thinking. Rather than viewing the chemical adulteration of our environment and our bodies as the inevitable practice of… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It's not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Today, if you pay a[n US] dollar for a pound of apples in the supermarketm only about six cents covers the farmwork… — Tracie McMillan Copy Share Image
We need to do a better job of supporting diversity and inclusion within all sectors of our economy, including agriculture. — Ned Lamont Copy Share Image
Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a… — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
Most farmers know that their children's future will probably not be in agriculture, but they have a hard time imagining a different… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
Agriculture for an honorable and highminded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of… — Xenophon Copy Share Image
I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners. — James MacArthur Copy Share Image
Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days. — Henri Alain Liogier Copy Share Image
I dream of making India a $20 trillion economy. For that, I am pushing for agriculture, manufacturing and service sectors. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Five generations of back ache, wrinkles and empty penny jars.. why do we do it?! Dur its farming, simply loving life and… — Laura Claxton Copy Share Image