Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest. — Thomas Tusser Copy Share Image
The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
Along with currency manipulation, the New Deal introduced to Americans the spectacle of Fascist dictation to business, labor, and agriculture. — Herbert Hoover 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
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
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
One imputation in particular has been repeated till it seems as if some at least believed it: that I am an enemy… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and… — Allan Savory Copy Share Image
It is now 14 years since I first suggested that organic farming might have some benefits and ought to be taken seriously.… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
We have to try to convince everybody in America, that if you eat you're involved in agriculture. That the shirts don't just… — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
“professions of farming and medicine grew out of a shared goal: to sustain individuals and communities by supporting the workings of nature… — Daphne Miller M.D Copy Share Image
Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the… — Luke Bryan 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
It [The Gesundheit Institute] also won't separate the healing arts. All of them work together - traditional medicine and surgery with acupuncture,… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
“See,' said (Liberty Hyde) Bailey, 'how the leaves of this small plant stand forth extended to bathe themselves in the light. ...… — Russell Lord Copy Share Image
“This is considered almost holy work by farmers and ranchers. Kill off everything you can't eat. Kill off anything that eats what… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
During the Qin Dynasty, all books not relating to practical concerns such as agriculture or construction were ordered burned by the emperor… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
The idea of hunting and gathering as the best way for life has become quite popular recently, much more populare in some… — Walter Truett Anderson Copy Share Image
One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared… — Stephen Hawking 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
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
Missouri agriculture has a bright future, and you can see that in action through our FFA members. — Mike Parson 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
Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule… — Winston Churchill 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
When I was agriculture minister, we drafted specific policies to tackle the agrarian crisis. — Sharad Pawar 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
Women's worst invention was the plow. With the beginning of plow agriculture, men's roles became extremely powerful. Women lost their ancient jobs… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image