Agriculture Quote by Wendell Berry

To put it bluntly, we now need to reverse course. We need more highly skilled small farmers in more places all across America -…

— Michael Pollan

“re: the US agriculture industry: " This puts us in the odd position of consuming fossil fuels --geologically one of the rarest and most…

— David R. Montgomery

...the era of cheap oil and natural gas is coming to a crashing end, with global oil production projected to peak in 2010 and…

— Richard Heinberg

There are lots of bad things that can happen to a food economy that's both extensive and centralized. There's no substitute for petroleum. To…

— Wendell Berry

Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food

— Albert Allen Bartlett

The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The important thing…

— Michael Pollan

You've got a global food problem. You've got a food problem in the United States. You've got a food problem in Africa... in Asia.…

— Howard Graham Buffett

Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will…

— Jeremy Grantham

We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that…

— Paul Watson

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

— Simone Weil

We have to grow our food differently because industrial farming will soon end. That means growing more food locally on smaller farms with more…

— James Howard Kunstler

We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil…

— Lester R. Brown