Best Agriculture Quotes
397 Agriculture quotes by 273 unique authors
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The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member of…
— Fiorello H. La Guardia
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When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are…
— Wes Jackson
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It is now 14 years since I first suggested that organic farming might have some benefits and ought to be taken seriously. I shall never…
— Prince Charles
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Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture.
— Tony Benn
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In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where…
— Prince Philip
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The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities. It has been found possible so to mold the mind of the masses that they…
— Edward Bernays
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One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and…
— Stephen Hawking
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Essentially, by 2050 we need all activities outside agriculture to be near zero carbon emitting if we are to stop carbon dioxide levels in the…
— David Miliband
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Extreme weather like the droughts in Russia, China and Brazil and the flooding in Pakistan and Australia [in 2010] have contributed to a level of…
— John Beddington
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Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues
— Jim Hightower
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The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons…
— Bill Mollison
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Many organic practices simply make sense, regardless of what overall agricultural system is used. Far from being a quaint throwback to an earlier time, organic…
— David Suzuki
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A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land.
— Wendell Berry
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The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a similar nature, all…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.
— Alexander Hamilton
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The tendency of a national bank is to increase public and private credit. The former gives power to the state, for the protection of its…
— Alexander Hamilton
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There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The proper role of government, however, is that of partner with the farmer -- never his master. By every possible means we must develop and…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Because of the industrialization of agriculture -- using massive amounts of fossil fuel -- only 2 percent of Americans work in farming. And yet they…
— Ann Coulter
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Over the last 30 odd years, Democrats have moved to the right and the right has moved into the mental hospital. So what we have…
— Bill Maher
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High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage.
— Alan Autry
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I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t invent a better…
— Wendell Berry
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The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities, and…
— Edward Abbey
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All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn…
— Thomas Jefferson
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