"Trade is 10 times as old as farming." — Matt Ridley
"Trade is 10 times as old as farming."
—
Matt Ridley
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
26 Quotes by Matt Ridley
Matt Ridley has 26 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative.
-
The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words…
-
Society works not because we have consciously invented it, but because it is an ancient product of our evolved predispositions.…
-
It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of…
-
You need to understand how human beings bring together their brains and enable their ideas to combine and recombine, to…
-
Intelligence will become more and more collective; innovation and order will become more and more bottom up.
-
The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.
-
Uniqueness is the commodity of glut.
-
We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love…
-
How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that…
-
The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene
-
Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next…
See all 26 quotes by Matt Ridley »
More Farming Quotes
This quote is filed under Farming Quotes,
one of 177 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
— Lauren Bacall
-
Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
— Wendell Berry
-
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be…
— Wendell Berry
-
I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm…
— Anthony Bourdain
-
The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the…
— David R. Brower
-
The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to…
— Wendell Berry
-
Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
— Cato the Elder
-
It is now 14 years since I first suggested that organic farming might have some benefits and ought to be…
— Prince Charles
-
I can't give you a specific number today, in large part because the analysis upon which we would make that…
— Tom Vilsack
-
The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of…
— Peter Singer
-
Salmon farming-the placement of large metal or mesh net cages in the ocean to grow fish-was pioneered in Norway in…
— David Suzuki
-
Organic farming has been shown to provide major benefits for wildlife and the wider environment. The best that can be…
— Prince Charles
See all 177 Farming Quotes »