Agriculture Quotes
You can't do everything. You can't do health and forestry and agriculture. You've got to focus and do one or the other.
I farm taro. I have eight varieties of taro, which is a staple of the Hawaiian people from about 2,000 years ago, and sweet potatoes, and it's a sustainable living, agriculture, off the grid.
The Department of Agriculture announced that it will ban six new strains of E. coli. Which explains why the hot dog vendor outside my building is now just selling napkins.
A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.
The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat.
In a sense, the fossil fuels are a onetime gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and eventually should lead us to a future based on renewable resources.
Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.
To me, one of the easiest ways of addressing climate change and potentially remedying climate change is to stop subsidizing animal agriculture.
I dream of making India a $20 trillion economy. For that, I am pushing for agriculture, manufacturing and service sectors.
I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.
The current food crisis is an opportunity for companies to engage in agriculture or biotechnology.
The problem is that this round from its inception has had agriculture at its centerpiece. The EU and the U. S. and other WTO members cannot wish that away, that is a reality.
Once you get the government involved in agriculture you'll have nothing but problems and expenses.
If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.
Congress did not pass last year's 2006 budget proposals. The 2007 budget proposals are very similar, and once again unfairly target agriculture. I expect Congress to reject them again.
It was one of the late Conservative Government's gestures towards agriculture -- graceful as a kiss, and of about as much use.
From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which I find healthful to my body, mind, and affairs.
At President Obama's direction, the U.S Department of Agriculture is working hard to unleash the power of America's innovators and entrepreneurs to build a green energy economy.
I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture.
To keep farmers on the farm we must maintain a strong farm safety net, but we will also have to build a thriving companion economy to compliment production agriculture in rural America.
Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture.
Agriculture specialists say our farm production is increasing and will go on increasing. Thank God.
Here we have 40 million Russian citizens involved in the sphere of agriculture one way or another. This is very important.
Media coverage of the legislative fights is overwhelmingly negative for agriculture interests. The impression left among consumers is that the proponents had something to hide.
The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal.
American agriculture is badly in need of diversity. Another threat to the food system of course is the likelihood that petroleum is not going to get any cheaper.
In addition to achieving outside the industry, agriculture, national defense science and technology modernization, we are faced with the important task of system modernization.
We farm workers are closest to food production. We were the first to recognize the serious health hazards of agriculture pesticides to both consumers and ourselves.
Only a very foolish person would think that specialized knowledge is important in everything apart from agriculture and farming
It is impossible to have a healthy and sound society without a proper respect for the soil.
I always worried because whenever a drought struck, an accursed storm of blood always followed.
We have been living through a time of sorrow. Our seed remains seed. Our nostrils are dusty.
Someday men will learn to irrigate and spread fertilizer instead of praying for fertility.
Food and medicine are not two different things: they are the front and back of one body. Chemically grown vegetables may be eaten for food, but they cannot be used as medicine.
Until there is a reversal of the sense of values which cares more for size and appearance than for quality, there will be no solving the problem of food pollution.
Husbandry is the foundation of civilization - all sustenance derives from it, as well as the principal benefits and blessings that civilization brings.
Green meant water, green patches meant farmers and farmers meant agriculture. Agriculture meant food to eat and food to sell, which meant towns and transport. They had reached civilization.
Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization.