"Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture.……" — Joel Salatin
"Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation."
—
Joel Salatin
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
64 Quotes by Joel Salatin
Joel Salatin has 64 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
In my opinion, if there is one extremely legitimate use for petroleum besides running wood chippers and front-end loaders to…
-
I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off.
-
A farm regulated to production of raw commodities is not a farm at all. It is a temporary blip until…
-
How many of us lobby for green energy or protected lands, but don't engage with the local bounty to lay…
-
Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they…
-
What happens is all these things we're seeing – campylobacter, E coli, mad cow, listeria, salmonella, that weren't even in…
-
Remember, machines don't forgive.
-
You can't chemical your way out of soil infertility
-
You know what the best kind of organic certification would be? Make an unannounced visit to a farm and take…
-
Don’t complain about being unable to afford high-quality local food when your grocery cart is full of beer, cigarettes, and…
-
Respecting and honoring the pigness of the pig is a foundation for societal health.
-
If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations…
See all 64 quotes by Joel Salatin »
More Agriculture Quotes
This quote is filed under Agriculture Quotes,
one of 397 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat.…
— Max Baucus
-
Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas…
— Gary Becker
-
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in…
— Christopher Bond
-
Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy…
— Norman Borlaug
-
There are no miracles in agricultural production.
— Norman Borlaug
-
The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the…
— David R. Brower
-
The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.
— John Bruton
-
Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up…
— Luke Bryan
-
I would say my fraternity was nothing but a bunch of farm boys; we weren't really in the whole fraternity…
— Luke Bryan
-
Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but…
— William Jennings Bryan
-
The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family…
— Jim Bunning
-
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
See all 397 Agriculture Quotes »