Agriculture Quote by Wendell Berry Download Open image “Eating is an agricultural act.” — Wendell Berry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Agriculture Eating Environment Food
Eating is an agricultural act. Eating ends the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth. Most eaters, however, are… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The act of eating is very political. You buy from the right people, you support the right network of farmers and suppliers who care… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
“Eating is an agricultural act,' as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though much has… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more than anything… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“We're a nation with an eating disorder, and we know it. The multiple maladies caused by bad eating are taking a dire toll on… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world. — Marcella Hazan Copy Share Image
“Eaters must understand,” Wendell Berry writes, “that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The industrial eater is, in fact, one who does not know that eating is an agricultural act, who no longer knows or imagines the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I knew a man who, in the age of chain-saws, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is, what surrounds us, we have already made a profound… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“That we can prescribe the terms of our own success, that we can live outside or in ignorance of the Great Economy are the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture,… — Christopher Bond Copy Share Image
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to… — Rick Larsen Copy Share Image
Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
I would say my fraternity was nothing but a bunch of farm boys; we weren't really in the whole fraternity scene, but yeah, that's… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
Farmers, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Because Iran understands Afghanistan far better than Americans do, making Iran a partner in a long-term effort to transform Afghan agriculture makes sense. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Sara Scherr and Jeff McNeely have given us a thoughtful, sensible book about a topic of great importance to the world. There is no… — Ismail Serageldin Copy Share Image
People want development, modern thinking. They want to encourage and support research in agriculture and other fields. — Sharad Pawar Copy Share Image
When politicians talk of loan waiver, they are accepting that agriculture is not economically viable. They are giving a wrong signal that farming is… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
