Agriculture Quote by Barry O'Sullivan

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be…

— Nikolai Gogol

We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of them are…

— Ertharin Cousin

The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less.

— Joel Salatin

Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators.

— Sandra Lerner

I see little hope for a nation that values the health of its livestock more than that of its people…Farmers are not criticized for…

— Adelle Davis

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

— Henry David Thoreau

“1.9% had agricultural jobs, more than a 20-fold improvement in productivity per person. So if all people wanted was to be fed, the average…

— Daniel Berleant

In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only…

— Tom Vilsack

People are hungry not because there aren't enough farmers or food, but because they don't have access to it or can't afford it.

— Howard Graham Buffett

“Agriculture is an honorable way to become poor”

— Ken Follett

There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food.

— Theodore Sturgeon

Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental…

— Stewart Brand