Appetite Quote by Mark Twain

And yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“however, while the gnats were swarming like locusts”

— M.F. Lorson

Nature gives man corn but he must grind it; God gives man a will but he must make the right choices.

— Fulton J. Sheen

The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida.

— Othello

And when that crop grew, and was harvested, no man had crumbled a hot clod in his fingers and let the earth sift past…

— John Steinbeck

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure…

— Norman Borlaug

Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for harvest,…

— S. I. Hayakawa

Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.

— Michael Pollan

“The words of Nils Hellstrom. There is another respect in which we must guard against becoming too much like the insects upon whom we…

— Frank Herbert

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.

— Henry Cantwell Wallace

What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.

— Alan Chadwick

As a farmer, man himself became closely attached to the landscape, firmly rooted to the soil that supported him. At times the soil seemed…

— Charles Kellogg