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“The change from the categories of hunter-gatherers to pastoralism to agriculture involved using a decreasing area of land, but an increasingly more intensive use…

— Romila Thapar

Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and wandering shepherd,…

— Edward Everett

As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture; they will find it in their natural--their…

— Edmund Burke

“With the advent of farming, human horizons expanded.”

— James Dale Davidson

An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating

— Wendell Berry

The rapid growth of industry, the ever increasing population and the imperative need for more varied, wholesome and nourishing foodstuff makes it all the…

— George Washington Carver

“True, hundreds of millions may nevertheless go on believing in Islam, Christianity or Hinduism. But numbers alone don’t count for much in history. History…

— Yuval Noah Harari

As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a sustainable culture,…

— Wes Jackson

“professions of farming and medicine grew out of a shared goal: to sustain individuals and communities by supporting the workings of nature and intervening—oh…

— Daphne Miller M.D

“food production was indirectly a prerequisite for the development of guns, germs, and steel. Hence geographic variation in whether, or when, the peoples of…

— Jared Diamond

Two hundred years ago, we were all busy farming and we all had a role to play. The home was a unit of production.…

— Peter Buffett

The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions…

— Earl Browder