That we don't design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
See, technology can advance yield and productivity, but only public policy can advance the income of farmers. There has to be a… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
Permaculture gives us a toolkit for moving from a culture of fear and scarcity to one of love and abundance — Toby Hemenway Copy Share Image
Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries. — Allan Savory 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
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
The reductionist measure of yield is to agriculture systems, what GDP is to economic systems. It is time to move from measuring… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
While our ancestor chiefs at least had some intuitive feel for important variables like agriculture and cavalry our contemporary chiefs (and those… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
U.S. industries from steel-making to plastics synthesis are among the world's most energy-efficient; American agriculture is highly productive, as are America's railroads.… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
In Southern California along the coast, if the only thing you can do with the land is agriculture, it would be substantially… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
In India, unlike in the United States and Australia, agriculture is not just a food producing enterprise but also the backbone of… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
A technological revolution on the farm has led to an output explosion--but we have not yet learned to harness that explosion usefully,… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
GMO agriculture will probably save the world in this century. But in the developed world, where few people are haunted by the… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
If you understand it from an ecological or sustainability perspective, agriculture is the primary way we meet most of our needs, and… — David Holmgren Copy Share Image
All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of… — Stuart L. Hart Copy Share Image
Illegal immigration is praised only by those who benefit directly from it, whether in the familial sense of inexpensive nannies, cooks, or… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man… — Winston Churchill 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
I cite a good example, say, of agriculture, .. In agriculture we need to move with speed to bring to full utilization… — Gideon Gono Copy Share Image
“The word agriculture, after all, does not mean "agriscience," much less "agribusiness." It means "cultivation of land." And cultivation is at the… — Wendell Berry 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
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
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
The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star. — Wes Jackson 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
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
Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and… — Michael McCaul Copy Share Image
It looks to me like the candidates are trying to relieve the farmer of his vote, instead of his debts. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Large-scale deforestation can be prevented while increasing food production through better, smarter agriculture. — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
Farmers in rain-fed, dry areas such as Vidarbha and parts of Andhra Pradesh may own several hectares of land but their farm… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
The Department of Agriculture announced that it will ban six new strains of E. coli. Which explains why the hot dog vendor… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
The fundamental for the sustainable growth of Nigeria is not in the hydro-carbon industry but in agriculture. — Yemi Osinbajo Copy Share Image
Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned… — Alan Autry Copy Share Image