Agriculture Quote by Annalee Newitz

Eventually, humans invented agriculture, which could be understood as a way of turning the natural world into a tool for our use. There's evidence…

— Annalee Newitz

If you understand it from an ecological or sustainability perspective, agriculture is the primary way we meet most of our needs, and it's the…

— David Holmgren

All the companies I've worked for have this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunting and gathering cultures of 100,000 years ago.…

— Alan Kay

There is also a marked global trend towards sustainable agriculture, building on traditional methods which use fewer chemical inputs, carefully manage soil and water…

— Helen Clark

“The human population is too large, and the earth too small, to sustain us in the ways our ancestors lived. Most of the land…

— Nina Fedoroff

We have progressed in a technological sense, but I'm not so sure whether we have progressed in a civilizational matter - the quality of…

— Laszlo Nemes

Now listen, the one thing about agriculture is we've lost our manufacturing, we've lost a great deal of jobs overseas, lots of our industry.…

— John Boozman

Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is the No.…

— Wes Jackson

To sum up, agriculture has made important progress and our farmers have now shown that they are second to none in terms of improving…

— M. S. Swaminathan

“Scholars once proclaimed that the agricultural revolution was a great leap forward for humanity. They told a tale of progress fuelled by human brain…

— Yuval Noah Harari

For too long we have tried to consume our way to prosperity. Look at the cost: polluted lands and oceans, climate change, growing scarcity…

— Ban Ki-moon

We have to grow our food differently because industrial farming will soon end. That means growing more food locally on smaller farms with more…

— James Howard Kunstler