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If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems labeling them as… — Adam Gollner
Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude implement of tillage… — Hugh Hammond Bennett
Humans lived for several million years as fully wild beings: only in the last 10, 000 did we invent agriculture; only in the last couple… — Simon Barnes
Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. — Winston Churchill
More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture’s relationship to nature. — Charles Eisenstein
Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the… — Jeremy Grantham
The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture. — Jacob Bronowski
Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people, and the American continent received many people whose contributions are particularly clear in the agricultural and… — Julius Streicher
Agriculture's not insulated from having a percentage of people who might be really good old graziers, but they're no good as business people. — Barry O'Sullivan
What I am saying every day to Malawians is that time has come for us to move from aid to trade. We have picked several… — Joyce Banda
The most important characteristic of an organism is that capacity for internal self-renewal known as health. There are two organisms whose processes of self-renewal have… — Aldo Leopold
Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in agriculture… — Nina Fedoroff
In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And that's because genomes… — Nina Fedoroff
There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to a… — Nina Fedoroff
Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories… — Yanis Varoufakis
Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them back on the… — Norman Borlaug
Great food, like all art, enhances and reflects a community’s vitality, growth and solidarity. Yet history bears witness that great cuisines spring only from healthy… — Rick Bayless
The biggest threat to the American people today lies with the United States government. ... [T]he long-term solution is to dismantle, not reform, the iron… — Jacob G. Hornberger
It is simply that in all life on earth as in all good agriculture there are no short-cuts that by-pass Nature and the nature of… — Louis Bromfield
Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all… — Horace
He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky. — Douglas William Jerrold
A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage. — Ovid
Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get. — Thomas Tusser
Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest. — Thomas Tusser
Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. — Alexander Pope

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