Commodity prices are at a record high. In 1933, the world's population was just over 2 billion people. Today, there are 7… — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man.… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
The person who can most easily take up natural agriculture is the one who doesn't have any of the common adult obstructing… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
“Most of us are creatures so comforted by habit, it can take something on the order of religion to invoke new, more… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry,… — Gary Miller Copy Share Image
“the subtler impact of not having one. The effect of a few hundred cattle grazing unrestrained, every day, within and around the… — Madhu Ramnath Copy Share Image
Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Agriculture changes the landscape more than anything else we do. It alters the composition of species. We don't realize it when we… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The most important characteristic of an organism is that capacity for internal self-renewal known as health. There are two organisms whose processes… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
As one of the nation's top agricultural states, Nebraska has a great opportunity to provide input that will help shape the 2007… — Dave Heineman Copy Share Image
As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
If you want to feed the planet and keep the forests we have, you need to be able to grow roughly twice… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
We do participate in the government programs, like probably 95 percent of farmers do. People who aren't familiar with the agriculture industry,… — Vicky Hartzler Copy Share Image
Here is my Farm Relief bill: Every time a Southerner plants nothing on his farm but cotton year after year, and the… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Women have an important role in agriculture. We need to introduce technology, which will help us harness the potential of women in… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
The serious problem is the education of the peasantry. The peasant economy is scattered, and the socialization of agriculture, judging by the… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The economy of the 21st century will come to center on agriculture. Life will be intensely and profoundly local in ways that… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Food security is an authentically human requirement. Guaranteeing it for present and future generations also means safeguarding ourselves against the uncontrolled exploitation… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The high food value of field beans and the shortage of supply due to the light yields of 1915 and 1916 render… — David F. Houston Copy Share Image
The permaculture's whole principle of having to work with nature, rather than fight against it, is not just an ethical restraint. It's… — David Holmgren Copy Share Image
Agribusiness and food processing are important parts of modernizing our economy, of modernizing our agriculture and moving into a phase where a… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
Animal agriculture takes up an incredible 70% of all agricultural land, and a whopping 30% of the land surface of the planet.… — Kathy Freston Copy Share Image
Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We got a malaria initiative, really a phenomenal time, even though in the early stages there was some uncertainty. Then of course… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There's nothing like castrating 20 pigs before lunch. I did that during school whenever the need arose. They'd call out the agricultural… — Fred Ward Copy Share Image
What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet. We don't know what details… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
“The predominant system of farming bolstered by all of this is accurately named industrial agriculture. It is capital-intensive, not labor-intensive, which largely… — Richard Manning 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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 got a malaria initiative, really a phenomenal time, even though in the early stages there was some uncertainty. Then of course [Barack] Obama, although he had budget constraints, he believed in these things; a lot of new initiatives, including in agriculture.” quote by Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f36/bill-gates-137_agriculture_we-got-a-malaria-initiative-really-a-phe_148148.jpg)
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