Acres Quote by Jack Herer

Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

— Jack Herer

We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system.

— Joel Salatin

It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration,…

— Ralph Merkle

We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.

— John Adams

Imagine people growing hemp and making everything from food to fuel without petroleum!

— Josh Tickell

There is no reason, in a free society, that farmers shouldn’t be allowed to raise hemp. Hemp is a good product.

— Ron Paul

The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Hemp is one of the greatest, most important substances of our nation

— Thomas Jefferson

Since 1937, about half the forests in the world have been cut down to make paper. If hemp had not been outlawed, most would…

— Alan Bock

If you want to feed the planet and keep the forests we have, you need to be able to grow roughly twice as much…

— Ramez Naam

Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse…

— Ralph Merkle

The main problem with biofuels - the land required - stems from their low power density.

— Michael Shellenberger