Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Since I was a boy - born into a farming family in Bonaire, GA - I've had agriculture running through my veins. — Sonny Perdue Copy Share Image
As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
We do participate in the government programs, like probably 95 percent of farmers do. People who aren't familiar with the agriculture industry,… — Vicky Hartzler Copy Share Image
Agriculture changes the landscape more than anything else we do. It alters the composition of species. We don't realize it when we… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
Women have an important role in agriculture. We need to introduce technology, which will help us harness the potential of women in… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
The economy of the 21st century will come to center on agriculture. Life will be intensely and profoundly local in ways that… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The serious problem is the education of the peasantry. The peasant economy is scattered, and the socialization of agriculture, judging by the… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for us to… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
The current economic crisis...has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model of… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Despite many differences in agronomic practices and in cultivated crops, all traditional agricultures shared the same energetic foundation. They were powered by… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
Socialist revolution aims at liberating the productive forces. The changeover from individual to socialist, collective ownership in agriculture and handicrafts and from… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“. . . every society that grows extensive lawns could produce all its food on the same area, using the same resources,… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
“If a good system of agriculture, unrivaled manufacturing skill, a capacity to produce whatever can contribute to either convenience or luxury, schools… — Thomas Munro Copy Share Image
The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities. It has been found possible so to mold the mind of the… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
“The predominant system of farming bolstered by all of this is accurately named industrial agriculture. It is capital-intensive, not labor-intensive, which largely… — Richard Manning Copy Share Image
Agribusiness and food processing are important parts of modernizing our economy, of modernizing our agriculture and moving into a phase where a… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
Animal agriculture takes up an incredible 70% of all agricultural land, and a whopping 30% of the land surface of the planet.… — Kathy Freston Copy Share Image
Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We got a malaria initiative, really a phenomenal time, even though in the early stages there was some uncertainty. Then of course… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet. We don't know what details… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
There's nothing like castrating 20 pigs before lunch. I did that during school whenever the need arose. They'd call out the agricultural… — Fred Ward Copy Share Image
That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense,… — Christopher Bond Copy Share Image
Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands...but empty cages; not traditional animal agriculture but a complete end to all commerce… — Tom Regan Copy Share Image
Clean hydrogen can play a major role in our all-of-the-above energy approach, and we're grateful to the Department of Energy for recognizing… — Doug Burgum Copy Share Image
Congress did not pass last year's 2006 budget proposals. The 2007 budget proposals are very similar, and once again unfairly target agriculture.… — Saxby Chambliss Copy Share Image
Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor;… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Millions and millions of people don't pay an income tax, because they don't earn enough to pay on one, but you pay… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
At President Obama's direction, the U.S Department of Agriculture is working hard to unleash the power of America's innovators and entrepreneurs to… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
Agricultural sustainability doesn't depend on agritechnology. To believe it does is to put the emphasis on the wrong bit of 'agriculture.' What… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
Having served as Secretary of Agriculture for eight years under a previous administration as well as Governor of Iowa, there is no… — Bill Hagerty Copy Share Image
It's very common to implement mob grazing and double your production for a per-acre capitalisation investment... because it doesn't take any more… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
The vision of an ag park set forth in the BioCrossroads report includes livestock, ... In addition, the vision of an ag… — Thurman Munson Copy Share Image
Cities originally surrounded by a wall can produce an urban population cut off from the surrounding fields and from agriculture altogether. At… — Yehuda Levi Copy Share Image