Fossil fuel Quote by David R. Montgomery

American agriculture is badly in need of diversity. Another threat to the food system of course is the likelihood that petroleum is not going…

— Wendell Berry

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.

— Allan Savory

That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we need food…

— Wendell Berry

“There is value in any experience that reminds us of our dependency on the soil-plant-animal-man food chain [...] Civilization has so cluttered this elemental…

— Aldo Leopold

In a sense, the fossil fuels are a onetime gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and eventually should lead us to a…

— Kenneth S. Deffeyes

“If we are going to start calling industrial corn sustainable, then we might as well say that petroleum is a renewable resource if you're…

— Catherine Friend

Agriculture is a sleeping giant. We have so many opportunities for commercial feedlots on reclaimed mine sites, possibilities for taking advantage of our waters,…

— Jim Justice

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving…

— Bill Gates

By increasing the use of renewable fuels such as ethanol and bio-diesel, and providing the Department of Energy with a budget to create more…

— John Salazar

“The tractor’s arrival had signaled, among other things, agriculture’s shift from an almost exclusive dependence on free solar energy to a total dependence on…

— Wendell Berry

The fossil fuel industry maintains a science denial operation and a political influence operation designed to do just that. What's good for their business…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

I would say that, from an agricultural perspective, I have a little bit of concern, because some of the folks I don't know are…

— Tom Vilsack