Best Agriculture Sayings
397 Agriculture quotes by 273 unique authors
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It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands...but empty cages; not traditional animal agriculture but a complete end to all commerce in the flesh…
— Tom Regan
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If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do…
— Barry Commoner
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As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a sustainable culture, community…
— Wes Jackson
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Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent…
— Alan D. Eames
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Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons, some protection had…
— Charles Heiser
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It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe,…
— William Kittredge
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If we took 75% of the world’s trashed rangeland, we could restore it from agriculture back to functioning prairies — with their animal cohorts —…
— Lierre Keith
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Proper turkey preparation is critical. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more Americans die every year from eating improperly cooked turkey than were killed…
— Dave Barry
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The problem is that this round from its inception has had agriculture at its centerpiece. The EU and the U. S. and other WTO members…
— Rob Portman
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The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Competition permits the capitalist to deduct from the price of labour power that which the family earns from its own little garden or field; the…
— Friedrich Engels
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I believe we can create a truly humane, sustainable, and health food production system without killing any animals. I imagine a revolution in veganic agriculture…
— Gene Baur
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I can't remember [of a good regulation]. Regulation of transport, regulation of agriculture — agriculture is a, zoning is z. You know, you go from…
— Ronald Coase
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In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
— Vandana Shiva
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The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man. One must eat,…
— Philip Johnson
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Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.
— Michael Pollan
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The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for us to operate in our…
— Wes Jackson
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The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star.
— Wes Jackson
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Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's made the fast…
— Michael Pollan
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We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching…
— Ken Robinson
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Real climate solutions are ones that steer these interventions to systematically disperse and devolve power and control to the community level, whether through community-controlled renewable…
— Naomi Klein
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More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense
— Marc Andreessen
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More and more major industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners…
— Marc Andreessen
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The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade, but…
— Ariel Durant
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It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the…
— David F. Houston
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