Best Agriculture Quotations

397 Agriculture quotes by 273 unique authors

One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral… — Antoine Lavoisier
Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a… — Jane Goodall
Everything else can wait, agriculture can’t. — Norman Borlaug
The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grains represents an...evil whose consequences may be far greater and longer lasting than any past… — Jeremy Rifkin
The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion. — Friedrich List
The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered. — Jared Diamond
Many people think that when we practice agriculture, nature is helping us in our efforts to grow food. This is an exclusively human-centered viewpoint... we… — Masanobu Fukuoka
There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song — Masanobu Fukuoka
Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious… — Bill Mollison
Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive. — David Holmgren
Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation. — Joel Salatin
In our society, we move people out of government. It's all operated by machines, meaning – not the people, just the products: the farming, the… — Jacque Fresco
You can't participate in agriculture or redesign of aircraft for making them safer if you know nothing about it. Â So, whenever a person says… — Jacque Fresco
Very few people can communicate with one another. The only language that's not subject to interpretation is mathematics, chemistry, basic science, engineering principles, and applied… — Jacque Fresco
Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate… — Jonathan Safran Foer
It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation. — Irene Rosenfeld
You can be entrepreneurial even if you don’t want to be in business. You can be a social entrepreneur focused on the not-for-profit sector. You… — Steve Case
Sara Scherr and Jeff McNeely have given us a thoughtful, sensible book about a topic of great importance to the world. There is no food… — Ismail Serageldin
When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land. — John Stuart Mill
The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I don't know. Can… — Cary Fowler
Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies, alliances, wars, religion. It… — Mark Kurlansky
After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output… — John Boyd Orr
No matter what our job is, we view it not as our purpose in life but rather as where God has sovereignly placed us for… — Matt Chandler
On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture. — Mike Johanns
To the greatest extent possible, I try to make choices that involve the least amount of cruelty and environmental damage. I'm interested in sustainable agriculture,… — Unknown Author

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