Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive. — David Holmgren Copy Share Image
When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It's not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is beyond time for Congress to stand up for U.S. farmers and confront the influence China has on the U.S. Agriculture… — Anna Paulina Luna Copy Share Image
To me, one of the easiest ways of addressing climate change and potentially remedying climate change is to stop subsidizing animal agriculture. — Moby Copy Share Image
It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged… — David F. Houston Copy Share Image
Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. They do agriculture. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money.… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
We have a series of regular meetings with South African business. Big business. Black business. Agriculture. As well, of course, with the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Like its agriculture, Africa's markets are highly under-capitalized and inefficient. We know from our work around the continent that transaction costs of… — Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin 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
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
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
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
Many people think that when we practice agriculture, nature is helping us in our efforts to grow food. This is an exclusively… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
“To think of food as a weapon, or of a weapon as food, may give an illusory security and wealth to a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
When we conduct agriculture, we are, therefore, altering the ecological arrangement that was responsible for our genesis as a species. I think… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
“What we must think about is an agriculture with a human face. We must give standing to the new pioneers, the homecomers… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
Man has existed for about a million years. He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The longer I think about a food industry organized around an animal that cannot reproduce itself without technical assistance, the more I… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
You can be entrepreneurial even if you don’t want to be in business. You can be a social entrepreneur focused on the… — Steve Case Copy Share Image
“In Spain, hilly terrain and antiquated planting and harvest practices keep farmers from retrieving more than about 100 pounds [of almonds] per… — Hannah Nordhaus Copy Share Image
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports.… — John Anderson Copy Share Image
Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise,… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Agriculture needs to be modernized so as to give work to youth, women and men from the country. — Jovenel Moise Copy Share Image
Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life. — Jim Costa Copy Share Image
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Permacultures - where you use the immediate environment to grow food - should be mandatory. — Ian Brown Copy Share Image
The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Missouri agriculture has a bright future, and you can see that in action through our FFA members. — Mike Parson Copy Share Image
The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
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