A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish…

I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell.…

— Nicholson Baker

We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water…

— Nina Fedoroff

One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise…

— Emiliano Zapata

Genetically engineered crops can cause a variety of destructive problems on the surrounding environment.

— Joshua Rosenthal

The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

— David F. Houston

Nuclear apocalypse-who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be…

— Christian Bale

When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and…

— Sinclair Lewis

Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we…

— Woody Harrelson

The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain; He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, And sees, resign'd, a…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

“A milpa is a field, usually but not always recently cleared, in which farmers plant a dozen crops at once, including maize, avocados, multiple…

— Charles C. Mann

Boys say they don't mind how you get your hair done. But then they leave you for someone with really great standard girl hair…

— Alexa Chung

The prime communities of the Southwest are survival communities. Their sustenance is governed by rainfall and wind direction. You can study little enclaves of…

— Antoine Predock

...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to…

— Arundhati Roy

I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields…

— John F. Kerry

I think we'll have a good potato crop this year," a newspaper editor told his housekeeper one morning. "No such thing," asserted the housekeeper.…

— James Keller