Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
At least I sure hope it will - and I see good signs all the time, especially in things like the rise… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
In addition to being a vital part of our history, agriculture is central to our growing economy and maintaining the outstanding quality… — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
Let's not pretend we're in a global free market when it comes to agriculture. Every country protects, for good reason, its agricultural… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
The problem is that this round from its inception has had agriculture at its centerpiece. The EU and the U. S. and… — Rob Portman Copy Share Image
During the 1990s, I served in the U.S. Department of Agriculture as the nation's 25th secretary of agriculture. — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
Do I need to know about medicine to solve the health problem in Brazil? Do I need to know about agriculture to… — Jair Bolsonaro Copy Share Image
Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
“American farm leaders are correct in arguing that our agriculture still must look forward to a definite ‘surplus’ problem. What they tend… — William H. Nichols Copy Share Image
I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for… — John Salazar Copy Share Image
In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and… — Michael Shanks Copy Share Image
Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
In Sub-Saharan Africa, where agriculture represents two-thirds of all employment, governments are proving that resource commitments yield success. In 2004, African heads… — Sylvia Mathews Burwell Copy Share Image
The current economic crisis...has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model of… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Despite many differences in agronomic practices and in cultivated crops, all traditional agricultures shared the same energetic foundation. They were powered by… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for us to… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
“. . . every society that grows extensive lawns could produce all its food on the same area, using the same resources,… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Socialist revolution aims at liberating the productive forces. The changeover from individual to socialist, collective ownership in agriculture and handicrafts and from… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“If a good system of agriculture, unrivaled manufacturing skill, a capacity to produce whatever can contribute to either convenience or luxury, schools… — Thomas Munro Copy Share Image
The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities. It has been found possible so to mold the mind of the… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
Nitrogen-based fertilizers, which came into wide use after World War II, helped prompt the agricultural revolution that has allowed the Earth to… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
The Chinese Communist Party has been stealthily encroaching on the U.S. Agriculture Industry for some time now. — Anna Paulina Luna Copy Share Image
Wish all the Farmers would move to town one year, that's the only way I know to clear the thing up. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“The real wealth of a planet is in its landscape, how we take part in that basic source of civilization- agriculture.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. During a briefing military stuff in which officials began… — Sean William Scott Copy Share Image
“Agricultural oil production is, and always has been, about industry. It was never about health.” — Liz Wolfe NTP Copy Share Image
African agriculture today is among, or is, the most under-capitalized in the world. Only seven percent of arable land in Africa is… — Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin Copy Share Image
Since I was a boy - born into a farming family in Bonaire, GA - I've had agriculture running through my veins. — Sonny Perdue Copy Share Image
