When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The emphasis on original, individual work in the past years has done a great deal to produce a crop of eccentric fakes… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
I'd done light comedy. In some quarters, About Last Night... is a romantic comedy. So it wasn't like I'd been doing Sophie's… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
As to the latter point - that by having a child in America you are somehow starving a child in Bangladesh -… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Natural history is a matter of observation; it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds… — John Burroughs 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
When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The care of a house, the conduct of a home, the management of children, the instruction and government of servants, are as… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
Plant genetic resources are seldom 'raw materials'; they are the expression of the current wisdom of farmers who have played a highly… — Melaku Worede Copy Share Image
Howard Dean is a cruel and extremist demagogue. And Howard Dean is as ignorant on John Ashcroft as he is on national… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
I think laying out a beautiful picture in a beautiful way is a bloody bore. I think you've got to blow it… — Diana Vreeland 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
Children are our crop, our fields, our earth. They are birds let loose into darkness. They are errors renewed. Still, they are… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Globalization, which attempts to amalgamate every local, regional, and national economy into a single world system, requires homogenizing locally adapted forms of… — Helena Norberg-Hodge Copy Share Image
In the Ramtops village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no-one is finally dead until the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The Internet is an incredible business tool. First of all, the Internet/the cell phone - the cell phone is just another way… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
a laotong relationship is made by choice...when we first looked in each other's eyes in the palanquin I felt something special pass… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
In the food case in particular, one of the technologies that could help there - genetic technologies that could create better crops… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
However, I think that sometimes when shows do, you know, have a good season or a bad season, it comes down to… — Dan Cutforth Copy Share Image
You can have a strong economy or you can help the environment, but you can't do both at the same time. That's… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My sense is that the most under-appreciated-and perhaps most under-researched-linkages between forests and food security are the roles that forest-based ecosystem services… — Frances Ford Seymour Copy Share Image
When I reached Fort Binjemma, for example, where my grandfather was stationed for a while, the whole Victorian fort was decaying. Barbed… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Do we honestly believe that hopeless kids growing up under the harsh new rules will turn out to be chaste, studious, responsible… — Richard Stolley Copy Share Image
There are certain products that it's worth buying organic just because the alternatives have so much pesticide. There's a list of the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Regard the heart as a vast field. Use the mind as a plough. Treat the gunas (qualities) as bullocks. Use the intelligence… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
If we took 75% of the world’s trashed rangeland, we could restore it from agriculture back to functioning prairies — with their… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
The American people have no idea they are paying the bill. They know that someone is stealing their hubcaps, but they think… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Are we going to take the hands of the federal government completely off any effort to adjust the growing of national crops,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Here in the United States, a study of nearly 700 women in California showed an increased risk of fetal death among babies… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
In Sherman's famous march through Georgia, his soldiers left a swath of death and destruction, destroying crops, burning homes and killing civilians.… — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
When the Labor Department is forced to relent and let these visitors do this work it is of course all legal. But… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Who knows better than a peasant farmer the agricultural conditions in his country or region? It is not always necessary to send… — Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan Copy Share Image
I hate to say that, but the past was much more fascinating. I don't particularly care for any of the current crop… — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
A silence, the brief Sabbath of an hour, Reigns o'er the fields; the laborer sits within His dwelling; he has left his… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures.… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not begging at… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Raising crops to feed animals for human consumption requires a lot of land. It takes eight or nine cows a year to… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image