Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men… — Gary Becker Copy Share Image
If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
A root, a stem, a leaf, some means of capturing sunlight and air and making food - in sum, a plant. The… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
Tourism, viticulture and agriculture, logging and mining, ranching and manufacturing and ever-increasing numbers of small and medium-sized businesses are just a few… — Stockwell Day Copy Share Image
Big oil, big steel, big agriculture avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and thus drive out of business… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which… — Jerry Weller Copy Share Image
Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Take agriculture, where we haven't done much, or sanitation; saying, "okay, we will be able to make a really huge effort there."… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Agriculture must mediate between nature and the human community, with ties and obligations in both directions. To farm well requires an elaborate… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I now say that the world has the technology - either available or well advanced in the research pipeline - to feed… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
If you think about the last 50 years, Africa's proximity and historical context has absolutely been with Europe and the United States,… — Dambisa Moyo Copy Share Image
For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are scarcities in drinking water when you pollute the groundwater with nitrates. There is a scarcity in diversity when you create… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“ Agriculture About one-third of Italy is used for agriculture. In the middle of the twentieth century, half the Italian workforce was… — Jean F. Blashfield Copy Share Image
The measure discriminates definitely against products which make up what has been universally considered a program of safe farming. The bill upholds… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I was chairman of the steering committee for agriculture when we set up the target of 4% growth rate. I had written… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
“American farm leaders are correct in arguing that our agriculture still must look forward to a definite ‘surplus’ problem. What they tend… — William H. Nichols Copy Share Image
In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for… — John Salazar Copy Share Image
But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and… — Michael Shanks Copy Share Image
Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
If the U.S. became the undisputed superpower that it is today, it was primarily because of its technology, whether it is in… — N. R. Narayana Murthy Copy Share Image
Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people, and the American continent received many people whose contributions are particularly clear in… — Julius Streicher Copy Share Image
In Sub-Saharan Africa, where agriculture represents two-thirds of all employment, governments are proving that resource commitments yield success. In 2004, African heads… — Sylvia Mathews Burwell Copy Share Image
Sometimes a sound gets overused. There is such a thing as a good saxophone, but it's like those fields in agriculture -… — Thomas Mars Copy Share Image
I hear from readers a good deal, and I try to answer every letter. I think, because of my commitment to issues… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“One of the most important things about permaculture is that it is founded on a series of principles that can be applied… — Juliana Birnbaum Fox Copy Share Image
Agriculture has become essential to life; the forest, the lake, and the ocean cannot sustain the increasing family of man; population declines… — Elias Hasket Derby Copy Share Image
I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture,… — Augustus Copy Share Image
As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect… — Mike Rogers Copy Share Image
If you fill your Agriculture Committee with representatives of commodity farmers, and you don't have urbanites, you don't represent eaters, okay? You… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If we didn't have a sustainable agriculture industry, who would be paying the then-missing taxes to support our defence, police, roads, airports,… — Gina Rinehart Copy Share Image
I always thought of Djibouti as a place where human history hasn't really begun yet - or perhaps it's already over. There's… — Claire Denis Copy Share Image
Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate… — Philemon Copy Share Image
![“Take agriculture, where we haven't done much, or sanitation; saying, "okay, we will be able to make a really huge effort there." It really energized the foundation and half of what we've gotten done in this last decade is because Warren [Buffett] trusted us.” quote by Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0d0/bill-gates-137_able_take-agriculture-where-we-haven-t-done-m_3049694.jpg)
