Disease Quote by Michael Pollan

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

— Alan Chadwick

The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment.

— Masanobu Fukuoka

“I was struck by the fact that for Joel abjuring agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals is not so much a goal of his farming, as it…

— Michael Pollan

In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.

— Charles Dickens

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

— Peter Singer

Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control.

— Aldo Leopold

The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone.

— Masanobu Fukuoka

The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how--usually in the bath or…

— Charles Bukowski

The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.

— Isabel Paterson

“In the symbiotic community of the forest, not only trees but also shrubs and grasses—and possibly all plant species—exchange information this way. However, when…

— Peter Wohlleben

“if you have low crop diversity, you will run into problems and require inputs, which means more technology. In the meantime, nature’s going to…

— Judith D. Schwartz

The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson