A couple degrees warmer would be good for humanity and planet, especially with more plant-fertilizing carbon dioxide in the air. [...] But… — Paul Driessen Copy Share Image
Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most… — James Madison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Viewed from a holistic ecological perspective, some meat - such as conscientiously hunted animals - involves less suffering and environmental damage than… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
Naturally and logically, people who forage rather than herd domestic beasts and tend crops for a living - that is, people who… — David Petersen Copy Share Image
We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have… — John Bright Copy Share Image
“Crop rotation and contour plowing require no additional capital equipment and would contribute significantly to productivity. By raising grain storage bins a… — Campbell R. McConnell Copy Share Image
The way to improve productivity is not to bring in experts to talk about inputs - seed, equipment and materials, pesticides or… — Verghese Kurien Copy Share Image
Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
The man that found the 726-carat diamond in Africa, received $350,000 for it and wants to buy a farm and silk hat.… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
We eat every day, and if we do it in a way that doesn't recognize value, it's contributing to the destruction of… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
“I think there has always been a strong crossover between the household- and community-level design in permaculture. From the beginnings of permaculture… — Juliana Birnbaum Fox Copy Share Image
Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The whole problem of industrial agriculture is putting all of your eggs in one basket. We need to diversify our food chains… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The decay of old aristocratic prejudices against greedy speculation, the undermining of orthodox Christian faith (which forbids avarice)... the debauching of agriculture… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Land is becoming a diminishing resource for agriculture, in spite of a growing understanding that the future of food security will depend… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
When harvests are exuberant, joy and health follow in their train; but let delusive prosperity draw industry from agriculture; let an insiduous… — Elias Hasket Derby Copy Share Image
I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
“In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and hope. And Odysseus… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The central industry of modern civilisation, tending, because of its control over materials, to spread into and ultimately incorporate older industries such… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
When it comes to taking genes from viruses and bacteria and putting them into plants, people say 'Yuck! Why would scientists do… — Pamela Ronald Copy Share Image
If we moved from industrialized agriculture to re-localized organic agriculture, we could sequester about one quarter of the carbon moving into the… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
The linear, single species idea of farming is an assault on ecological function. Something's going to break down in that system -… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
All my plans in private life; all my pursuits; all my designs, wishes, and thoughts, have this one great object in view:… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
Politics was good a hundred years ago. Today, politicians have no ability to solve any problems because they are not students of… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
What is different and exciting is how much we have learned. We learned we were right that we don't need the chemical… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
The Modi government says the farm laws will open agriculture to the corporate world. Who says this not already open to corporate… — Amarinder Singh Copy Share Image
We targeted five industries for growth, industries where we have natural advantages in North Dakota: value-added agriculture, advanced manufacturing, technology-based businesses, energy… — John Hoeven Copy Share Image
I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Eventually, humans invented agriculture, which could be understood as a way of turning the natural world into a tool for our use.… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
I want to be Miss USA or Miss America. I would bring the trophy back to Nebraska. My interests are agriculture and… — Gabrielle Union Copy Share Image
If we're eating industrially, if we're letting large corporations, fast food chains, cook our food, we're going to have a huge, industrialized,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
In the long term, expanding and modernizing I-27 through the Texas Panhandle will promote growth by connecting rural areas to the federal… — Ronny Jackson Copy Share Image
Just read the farm relief bill. It's just a political version of Einstein's last theory. If a farmer could understand it, he… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude… — Hugh Hammond Bennett Copy Share Image
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