Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Walters

To be economical agriculture must be ecological.

Charles Sturt

Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England.

David R. Brower

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.

David R. Brower

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

Cary Fowler

Agriculture is in danger. The whole world is in danger. We need to learn to adapt. If we don't, we'll face catastrophic consequence on a scale you cannot imagine.

Jared Diamond

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.

Alan Autry

High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage.

Al Lewis

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

Bernard Hinault

I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.

Dan Barber

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.

Dan Barber

In the rush to industrialize farming, we've lost the understanding, implicit since the beginning of agriculture, that food is a process, a web of relationships, not an individual ingredient or commodity.

Arthur Keith

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

David Ricardo

Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production.

Barry Commoner

If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.

Barry Commoner

The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.

Bertrand Russell

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

Vandana Shiva

It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.

Dwayne Andreas

What in the hell would they do with the farm program without us?

Dwayne Andreas

We're the biggest food and agriculture company in the world.

Debbie Stabenow

Agriculture looks different today - our farmers are using GPS and you can monitor your irrigation systems over the Internet.

Allan Savory

Almost all the knowledge required to produce more food than eroding soil is available today - we just need to use that knowledge within a holistic paradigm - managing agriculture holistically, forming the policies that undergird it holistically.

Allan Savory

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

Ann Coulter

Because of the industrialization of agriculture -- using massive amounts of fossil fuel -- only 2 percent of Americans work in farming. And yet they produce enough food to feed all 300 million Americans, with plenty left over for export. When are liberals going to break the news to their friends in Darfur that they all have to starve to death to save the planet?

Alexander Hamilton

Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.

Dan Glickman

One of the trends we’re seeing in food and agriculture is more and more consumers wanting to know things about their food and where and how it’s grown and what’s in it,

Douglas William Jerrold

He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.

David F. Houston

It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.

Alice Waters

I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.

Alexander Pope

Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.

Pat Roberts

Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.

Naguib Mahfouz

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.

Pierre Laval

I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.