Beetles Quote by Nicholson Baker

A study of Disease-of Pestilences methodically prepared and deliberately launched upon man and beast-is certainly being pursue in the laboratories of more than one…

— Winston Churchill

The widespread use of pesticides in the French countryside, and its worrying effects on nature and the environment, had troubled me for years.

— Carol Drinkwater

The only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease.

— Jacques Chirac

Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we…

— Woody Harrelson

England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land is a…

— William Crookes

Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring…

— Robin Leach

When World War II came along, which was when I was a teenager, we all expected we would have anthrax bombs and this kind…

— Freeman Dyson

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

— Masanobu Fukuoka

Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation.

— Joel Salatin

When I got there, all the pasta and science stuff hadn't quite caught on in England - things that were perfectly acceptable then wouldn't…

— Robbie Fowler

While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?

— Henry David Thoreau

The British have such an odd relationship with food - and the land. I want the public and the Soil Association to see that…

— Monty Don