“Well!—an honest and industrious farmer is one of the most useful members of society;” — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life. — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage. — Indian Proverb Copy Share Image
The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work. — Cato the Elder Copy Share Image
American agriculture is badly in need of diversity. Another threat to the food system of course is the likelihood that petroleum is… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade,… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops. — David F. Houston Copy Share Image
It's important to concede that modern pesticides have helped to make farming more productive and to increase yields. — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight… — Richard Henry Horne Copy Share Image
Training of farmers in integrated pest management is exceedingly important to protect them during the use of pesticides. — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
Anarchy would suggest you're not cooperating. Permaculture is urging complete cooperation between each other and every other thing, animate and inanimate. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
“The use of chemical fertilizers and other treatments has increased worldwide as large tracts of agricultural land are turned over to commodity… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
The proper role of government, however, is that of partner with the farmer -- never his master. By every possible means we… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I think the biggest impediment to fixing the food system in the United States is that we expect food to be cheap.… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to… — Alan D. Eames Copy Share Image
Media coverage of the legislative fights is overwhelmingly negative for agriculture interests. The impression left among consumers is that the proponents had… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
You grow great crops in great soil. And the soil is the commons. Increasingly, we have monopolistic companies that try to take… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Many organic practices simply make sense, regardless of what overall agricultural system is used. Far from being a quaint throwback to an… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
“A good family farm produces more, in net terms, than the farm family consumes. The good farmer has secured enough land to… — Jørgen Randers Copy Share Image
Extreme weather like the droughts in Russia, China and Brazil and the flooding in Pakistan and Australia [in 2010] have contributed to… — John Beddington Copy Share Image
We might hope that the law as a profession does not vanish, because justice may vanish with it - but we could… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Even in our own agriculture strategy, if we got a great new drought-resistant seed and we managed to get it distributed in… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
The government has departments to deal with the special interest groups that make themselves heard and felt. A Department of Agriculture cares… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Most people of my grandparents' generation had an intuitive sense of agricultural basics ... This knowledge has vanished from our culture. We… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm. — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man — George Washington Copy Share Image
Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food — Albert Allen Bartlett Copy Share Image
Agricultural husbandry essentially maintains the balance of bound nitrogen. — Fritz Haber Copy Share Image
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