Agriculture Quotes · Page 6

If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right.

— M. S. Swaminathan

Agriculture and intercultural dialogue: our common heritage.

— Jacques Diouf

Agricultural husbandry essentially maintains the balance of bound nitrogen.

— Fritz Haber

Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food

— Albert Allen Bartlett

A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection.

— Elias Hasket Derby

Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

— David R. Brower

Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution.

— Robert Kennedy

“Working in garden is like digging knowledge from the earth.”

— Karthikeyan V

“bukannya teknik bertanam yang merupakan faktor yang paling penting, melainkan lebih kepada pikiran petaninya.”

— Masanobu Fukuoka

Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest.

— Thomas Tusser

Along with currency manipulation, the New Deal introduced to Americans the spectacle of Fascist dictation to business, labor, and agriculture.

— Herbert Hoover

The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I…

— Cary Fowler

Essentially, by 2050 we need all activities outside agriculture to be near zero carbon emitting if we are to stop carbon dioxide…

— David Miliband

Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. They do agriculture.

— Mo Ibrahim

It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.

— Vandana Shiva

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else.…

— Ike Skelton

There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is…

— Nina Fedoroff

Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous…

— Daisaku Ikeda

Essentially all civilizations that rose to the level of possessing an urban culture had need for two forms of science-related technology, namely,…

— Frederick Seitz

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most…

— James Madison

The central part of the state is more remote and less scenic, and there's a huge agricultural belt that stretches from the…

— Carl Hiaasen

A couple degrees warmer would be good for humanity and planet, especially with more plant-fertilizing carbon dioxide in the air. [...] But…

— Paul Driessen

“According to analyses conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 100 grams of fresh tomato today has 30 percent less vitamin C,…

— Barry Estabrook

Competition permits the capitalist to deduct from the price of labour power that which the family earns from its own little garden…

— Friedrich Engels

“It could be said that a liberal education has the nature of a bequest, in that it looks upon the student as…

— Wendell Berry

“Here the goals of improving land and making a profit would not be mutually exclusive: Holistic Planned Grazing requires a lot of…

— Judith D. Schwartz

Our point of view is, lets not be so elitist that we can't honor good, hard, dignified, ennobling work: people working with…

— Van Jones

If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The…

— Daniel Quinn

What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Commercial agriculture can survive within pluralistic American society, as we know it - if the farm is rebuilt on some of the…

— Marty Strange

Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society…

— Wendell Berry

Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.

— Cato the Elder

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

— Anonymous

Sustainability is here to stay or we may not be

— Niall FitzGerald

A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.

— Ovid

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.

— Emeril Lagasse

Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks.

— Will Rogers

The USMCA is a good deal for American agriculture.

— Ben Sasse

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man

— George Washington