Agriculture Quotes
Agriculture Quote of the day
Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?
The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.
The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.
Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.
The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.
The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.
There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song
In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.
I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.
I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.
Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. During a briefing military stuff in which officials began telling him about missile silos.
Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.
Agriculture looks different today - our farmers are using GPS and you can monitor your irrigation systems over the Internet.
Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics.
The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.
Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies.
When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.
After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.
Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It's not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we choose to be
Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent settlement and agriculture.
You cannot, for instance, sustainably protect the environment if the majority of the people are still in primitive agriculture leading to the encroachment of forest reserves.
We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.
America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.
I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.
Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.
Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.
The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.
The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor.
It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'
I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.
People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more than anything else we do.
When wildlife damages agriculture we eliminate the wildlife. Rather we should eliminate agriculture when it damages wildlife.
BJP is committed to transform the agriculture sector. We want to increase farmer income and the purchasing power of villages.
Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member of Congress.
