Arable Quotes

11 quotes by 11 authors

If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no water, no arable land, no… — Jacque Fresco
African agriculture today is among, or is, the most under-capitalized in the world. Only seven percent of arable land in Africa is irrigated, compared to… — Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin
If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion acres) would support… — E. O. Wilson
We live on a finite planet. We have finite resources, and we're running out of good, arable land. — Jeremy Grantham
"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles,… — Abraham Cowley
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that… — Salman Rushdie
Do you understand how there could be any writing in a spider's web?" "Oh, no," said Dr. Dorian. "I don't understand it. But for that… — Elwyn Brooks White
The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the Ilokanos and the Cebuanos. — F. Sionil Jose
Viewed from a holistic ecological perspective, some meat - such as conscientiously hunted animals - involves less suffering and environmental damage than arable agriculture, while… — Tristram Stuart
There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken. — Josiah Strong
Five generations of back ache, wrinkles and empty penny jars.. why do we do it?! Dur its farming, simply loving life and what we do! — Laura Claxton

Who Wrote These Arable Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 11 Arable Quotes as follows: