Chemicals Quote by Frances Moore Lappé Download Open image “Old models of farming with chemicals and credit mostly favored privileged men.” — Frances Moore Lappé ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chemicals Credit Farming Men Models Privileged
The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
Suddenly, in the early 20th century, there were thousands of men with essentially nothing to do. The farm work, as well as other work,… — Peter Buffett Copy Share Image
“With the advent of controlled-environment agriculture it had become nearly impossible for individual farm families to compete economically with the mass-production greenhouses, so in… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
Agriculture for an honorable and highminded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living — Xenophon Copy Share Image
Farmers were always generalists. They had to know science and commerce and all sorts of practical things. — Rush D. Holt, Jr Copy Share Image
In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators. — Sandra Lerner Copy Share Image
For when men know they are working on what belongs to them, they work with far greater eagerness and diligence. Nay, in a word,… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The early industrialists were for the most part men who had their origin in the same social strata from which their workers came. They… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Hunger is a people-made phenomenon, so the central issue is power: the power of those who make the decisions about what is grown and… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
What is different and exciting is how much we have learned. We learned we were right that we don't need the chemical model of… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
We hear, "Oh, we need to patent GMOs and develop new strains and new chemicals because Nature can't provide what we need." I have… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
The good life may mean doing some things that do not feel comfortable. It may mean sitting long hours just with yourself as you… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
That's what happened when my own life crumbled. The people who came into my life bolstered me to take more risks, to be even… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
If we cannot know what's possible, then we are free to do that which is pulling our hearts and that which is life serving. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
My path has not been smooth. But the great thing about getting to be an elder is that you can look back and see… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other,… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence that our… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Because we are living in a culture increasingly dominated by fear where many feel blocked. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I believe that we have a huge problem with the water in America. We don't want to make that connection that these chemicals, at… — Erin Brockovich Copy Share Image
“Since Pawlow and his pupils have succeeded in causing the secretion of saliva in the dog by means of optic and acoustic signals, it… — Jacques Loeb Copy Share Image
You don't have to say it out loud. I already know why you like me.' 'You do, huh?' 'Yep.' He wrapped his arms around… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
There's a good case to be made that having fun is a key evolutionary advantage right next to opposable thumbs in terms of importance.… — Raph Koster Copy Share Image
It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our… — Jim Ramstad Copy Share Image
This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the rest -… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Israel has a couple of hundred nuclear weapons and also chemical and biological weapons. This stockpile is not only a threat in itself but… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip… — Edie Campbell Copy Share Image
I come to this debate, Mr. Speaker, as one at the end of 10 years in office on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image