Agriculture Quotes · Page 13

Earth is here so kind [Australia], that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

— Douglas Jerrold

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

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

Since nature has the most sustainable ecosystem and since ultimately agriculture comes out of nature, our standard for a sustainable world should…

— Wes Jackson

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

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers,…

— Horace

I support a robust economy where agriculture and businesses are able to compete in a fair and open global market.

— Ryan Zinke

In addition to being a vital part of our history, agriculture is central to our growing economy and maintaining the outstanding quality…

— Ralph Northam

“Biological evidence indicates that man, evolving with his food plants, developed horticulture and agriculture in both hemispheres at a time which may…

— Anonymous

For generations, farmers in Central Virginia and across the United States have engaged in voluntary conservation practices that have not only improved…

— Abigail Spanberger

There is no debate that the H-2A program needs significant reform. Increasing access, so that farmers and workers are able to meet…

— Madison Cawthorn

We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like…

— Gary Wright

The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grains represents an...evil whose consequences may be far greater and longer lasting…

— Jeremy Rifkin

The levels of poverty in 1933's rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control…

— Debbie Stabenow

Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand…

— Joseph Chamberlain

The sugar industry doesn't want to see more of the agricultural areas turned into storm-water treatment areas. Ultimately they want to develop…

— Charles Lee

Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in commerce, and in…

— Abraham Kuyper

Without an acquaintance with chemistry, the statesman must remain a stranger to the true vital interests of the state, to the means…

— Justus von Liebig

When not protected by law, by popular favor or superstition, or by other special circumstances, [birds] yield very readily to the influences…

— George Perkins Marsh

“What was shocking were the rewards my father's cousins had gathered in the intervening couple of decades. They farmed now on thousands…

— Philip Connors

Here are two facts that should not both be true: - There is sufficient food produced in the world every year to…

— Michael Dorris

I am being bombed by questions of all kinds. I will try to be very concise and try to explain to the…

— Che Guevara

“Most people of my grandparents' generation had an intuitive sense of agricultural basics ... This knowledge has vanished from our culture. We…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there…

— Wendell Berry

Let's not pretend we're in a global free market when it comes to agriculture. Every country protects, for good reason, its agricultural…

— Justin Trudeau

The origin of agriculture involved both human intentionality and a set of underlying ecological and evolutionary principles.

— Kent V. Flannery

Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.

— Wendell Berry

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability…

— Norman Borlaug

At least I sure hope it will - and I see good signs all the time, especially in things like the rise…

— Bill McKibben

We have built cities, developed industry and cultivated agriculture - we have transformed the State of Israel into an example and symbol…

— Ariel Sharon

The Department of Agriculture plays an integral role in supporting New Mexico's farms - from small family farms to large agricultural operations.

— Ben Ray Lujan

If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

— Samuel Johnson

I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.

— Thomas Jefferson

The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment.

— Masanobu Fukuoka

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

Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it.

— Will Rogers

The fundamental for the sustainable growth of Nigeria is not in the hydro-carbon industry but in agriculture.

— Yemi Osinbajo

I am saying that the recent activities by Turkey's Ministry of Agriculture, particularly the culling and communication work, is good.

— Bill Vaughan

“The discovery of Agriculture was the first step toward a civilized life, but the discovery of chemical fertilizers are become the first…

— Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer

In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson