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
Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries. — Allan Savory Copy Share Image
Here we have 40 million Russian citizens involved in the sphere of agriculture one way or another. This is very important. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
With wrong farming methods, we turn fertile land into desert. Unless we go back to organic farming and save the soil, there… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
During the 1990s, I served in the U.S. Department of Agriculture as the nation's 25th secretary of agriculture. — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
The problem is that this round from its inception has had agriculture at its centerpiece. The EU and the U. S. and… — Rob Portman Copy Share Image
Commodity prices are at a record high. In 1933, the world's population was just over 2 billion people. Today, there are 7… — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man.… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Food security is an authentically human requirement. Guaranteeing it for present and future generations also means safeguarding ourselves against the uncontrolled exploitation… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The high food value of field beans and the shortage of supply due to the light yields of 1915 and 1916 render… — David F. Houston Copy Share Image
The permaculture's whole principle of having to work with nature, rather than fight against it, is not just an ethical restraint. It's… — David Holmgren Copy Share Image
If you want to feed the planet and keep the forests we have, you need to be able to grow roughly twice… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Here is my Farm Relief bill: Every time a Southerner plants nothing on his farm but cotton year after year, and the… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
A man who took great pride in his lawn found himself with a large crop of dandelions. He tried every method he… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Net result [of the Dept. of Agriculture's Payment in Kind - PIK - program]: total farm income, now expected to be around… — Daniel Seligman Copy Share Image
He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We need to use economic instruments such as carbon taxes, cap and trade, tax and dividend and whatever else to help incentivize… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
More and more major industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems… — Adam Gollner Copy Share Image
“Most permaculturists are expert at understanding the relationships between landforms and water harvesting or between soil microorganisms and plant health. But when… — Juliana Birnbaum Fox Copy Share Image
Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons,… — Charles Heiser Copy Share Image
Nitrogen-based fertilizers, which came into wide use after World War II, helped prompt the agricultural revolution that has allowed the Earth to… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Do I need to know about medicine to solve the health problem in Brazil? Do I need to know about agriculture to… — Jair Bolsonaro Copy Share Image
It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“The real wealth of a planet is in its landscape, how we take part in that basic source of civilization- agriculture.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Wish all the Farmers would move to town one year, that's the only way I know to clear the thing up. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The Chinese Communist Party has been stealthily encroaching on the U.S. Agriculture Industry for some time now. — Anna Paulina Luna Copy Share Image
African agriculture today is among, or is, the most under-capitalized in the world. Only seven percent of arable land in Africa is… — Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin Copy Share Image
Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. During a briefing military stuff in which officials began… — Sean William Scott Copy Share Image
Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Agricultural oil production is, and always has been, about industry. It was never about health.” — Liz Wolfe NTP Copy Share Image
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