Agriculture Quote by Sheila Kaye-Smith

“essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

...think of agriculture as something the grasses did to people to conquer the trees.

— Michael Pollan

“modern agriculture has thoroughly separated the agri from the culture. They’ve killed the meaning of the word—bifurcated it, completely, in just the last thirty…

— Dan Barber

“It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around…

— Kilgore Trout

“This is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions. Yet”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“shaven lawns, and a general atmosphere of what is known as old-world peace. Cows were”

— P.G. Wodehouse

“Kissing was an extension of that, a celebration. A little party between us, amplifying our naive joy, our faith that the world was delighted…

— Katie Alender

“...no matter how rhapsodic one waxes about the process of wresting edible plants and tamed animals from the sprawling vagaries of nature, there's a…

— James E. McWilliams

“Sometimes the large scale organic farmer looks like someone trying to practice industrial agriculture with one hand tied behind his back.”

— Michael Pollan

Farmers are philosophical; they have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. But there is another angle to…

— Ruth Stout

“That one American farmer can now feed himself and fifty-six other people may be, within the narrow view of the specialist, a triumph of…

— Wendell Berry

…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

— Aimee Bender