Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Safran Foer

The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.

Olusegun Obasanjo

At the same time, African aims to intensify cooperation with China in the fields of trade, investment and agriculture.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

Globalization, which attempts to amalgamate every local, regional, and national economy into a single world system, requires homogenizing locally adapted forms of agriculture, replacing them with an industrial system-centrally managed, pesticide-intensive, one-crop production for export-designed to deliver a narrow range of transportable foods to the world market.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered.

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.

Jacques Diouf

Agriculture and intercultural dialogue: our common heritage.

Jerry Moran

We need to make sure the Department of Agriculture is promoting farmers and ranchers.

Jim Hightower

Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues

Jim Costa

Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.

Jerry Weller

Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which is a major manufacturing and a major agricultural district.

Christine Lagarde

France would be reluctant to embrace any proposal by the European Commission to slash agricultural tariffs if it threatened the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy .

Joseph Joubert

Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Most things, except agriculture, can wait

Herbert Hoover

Along with currency manipulation, the New Deal introduced to Americans the spectacle of Fascist dictation to business, labor, and agriculture.

Mao Zedong

Socialist revolution aims at liberating the productive forces. The changeover from individual to socialist, collective ownership in agriculture and handicrafts and from capitalist to socialist ownership in private industry and commerce is bound to bring about a tremendous liberation of the productive forces. Thus, the social conditions are being created for a tremendous expansion of industrial and agricultural production.

Mao Zedong

The serious problem is the education of the peasantry. The peasant economy is scattered, and the socialization of agriculture, judging by the Soviet Union's experience, will require a long time and painstaking work. Without socialization of agriculture, there can be no complete, consolidated socialism.

Ovid

A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.

Ovid

Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly.

Quintilian

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

Prince Philip

In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The divine chemistry works in the subsoil.

Mike Johanns

On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.

Kate Millett

In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property.

Julius Streicher

Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people, and the American continent received many people whose contributions are particularly clear in the agricultural and technical fields.

John Salazar

By increasing the use of renewable fuels such as ethanol and bio-diesel, and providing the Department of Energy with a budget to create more energy efficiency options, agriculture can be the backbone of our energy supply as well.

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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Ramez Naam

Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics.

Ralph Merkle

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.