Agriculture Quotes

Steak on the plate went up. Steak on the hoof went down.

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

Great food, like all art, enhances and reflects a community’s vitality, growth and solidarity. Yet history bears witness that great cuisines spring only from healthy local agriculture.

Since nature has the most sustainable ecosystem and since ultimately agriculture comes out of nature, our standard for a sustainable world should be nature's own ecosystem.

There are no miracles in agricultural production.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

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 toward alternatives.

If you eat, you are involved in agriculture.

So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out.

Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.

Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is the No. 1 threat to biodiversity on the planet.

More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture’s relationship to nature.

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.

The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star.

Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.

One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.

If we don't get sustainability right in agriculture first, it won't happen anywhere.

Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.

Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution.

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.

He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.

For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

There's an unexpectedly high share of workers still in agriculture, .. That's like a fault line.

Agriculture is the process of turning eco-systems into people.

In my father's language: "To create something out of nothing." That possibility exists in India even in old-world sectors like agriculture.

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.

Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.

I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation.

We have a strong agricultural heritage in Kansas.

Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?

Brezhnev wasn't a minus for the history of our country, he was a huge plus, He laid a foundation for the country's economics and agriculture.

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man

In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.

Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.

A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land.

I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.

I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar.

Blessed be agriculture! If one does not have too much of it.

Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.

As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.

Most things, except agriculture, can wait