It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental… — Irene Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet. — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics. — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of… — Pawan Kalyan Copy Share Image
As a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee it has been important to me to intersect with Hoosier farmers as often as… — Mike Braun Copy Share Image
The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop. — David F. Houston Copy Share Image
For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is impossible to talk about slowing climate change without talking about reducing CO2 emissions. Equally, it is impossible to talk about… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
Farmers can't plant much more land because almost every accessible acre of arable soil is already in use. Nor can the use… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
I farm taro. I have eight varieties of taro, which is a staple of the Hawaiian people from about 2,000 years ago,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are hundreds, even thousands of remarkable pilot or experimental projects in all fields - in agriculture, health, education. But where do… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
The most insistent and formidable concern of agriculture, wherever it is taken seriously, is the distinct individuality of every farm, every field… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I believe we can create a truly humane, sustainable, and health food production system without killing any animals. I imagine a revolution… — Gene Baur Copy Share Image
We believe one magnificent highway of this kind [the Lincoln Highway], in actual existence, will stimulate as nothing else could the building… — Carl G. Fisher Copy Share Image
“Considering the comparative lifespans of simpler tribal societies and that of the more advanced agri-urban empires of antiquity, even here in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Competition permits the capitalist to deduct from the price of labour power that which the family earns from its own little garden… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The biggest threat to the American people today lies with the United States government. ... [T]he long-term solution is to dismantle, not… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Humans lived for several million years as fully wild beings: only in the last 10, 000 did we invent agriculture; only in… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
Sara Scherr and Jeff McNeely have given us a thoughtful, sensible book about a topic of great importance to the world. There… — Ismail Serageldin Copy Share Image
It's the embrace of corn-based ethanol that has driven up all food prices. It's not making agriculture more sustainable. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Designing our own agriculture policy will mean we can put behind us the quotas and regulations that have held back U.K. output… — John Redwood Copy Share Image
I've farmed all my life and I have big ideas on how to grow agriculture jobs in West Virginia. — Jim Justice Copy Share Image
George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Gluten intolerance and celiac disease are direct results of American agriculture policy and, specifically, the government's wading into the food arena. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Looking ahead, the bright spot in Indian agriculture is the availability of a large untapped production reservoir. — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
Agriculture is one of the biggest causes of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Cars? Planes? Trains? Nope. Cow farts. — Zazie Beetz Copy Share Image
In a sense, the fossil fuels are a onetime gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and eventually should lead us… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes Copy Share Image
In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
I was horrified to visit our universities and find that at the Punjab Agriculture University or at the Animal and Husbandry University,… — Amarinder Singh Copy Share Image
The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
There is not a better day in the world to be spent than with a lot of wise old cowmen around barbecued… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
In my father's language: "To create something out of nothing." That possibility exists in India even in old-world sectors like agriculture. — Mukesh Ambani Copy Share Image
Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
A lot of crops depend on labor, but they're done by farmers that don't communicate with one another. They're never in the… — Howard Graham Buffett Copy Share Image