Quotes of: Agricultural Keyword

It is possible, I think, to say that... a Christian agriculture [is] formed upon the understanding that it is sinful for people to misuse or destroy what they did not make. The Creation is a unique, irreplaceable gift, therefore to be used with humil...

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultur...

Jamais Cascio

There are no miracles in agricultural production.

Norman Borlaug

Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!

Phytologia; Or the Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening. with the Theory of Draining Morasses, and with an Improved Construction of the Drill Ploug

Commercial agriculture can survive within pluralistic American society, as we know it - if the farm is rebuilt on some of the values with which it is popularly associated: conservation, independence, self-reliance, family, and community. To sustain i...

Marty Strange

The conditions necessary for devastating epidemics or pandemics just didn't exist until the agricultural revolution. The claim that modern medicine and sanitation save us from infectious diseases that ravaged pre-agricultural people (something we hea...

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

That one American farmer can now feed himself and fifty-six other people may be, within the narrow view of the specialist, a triumph of technology; by no stretch of reason can it be considered a triumph of agriculture or of culture. It has been made ...

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

He offered to pay me in agriculture, and I said I didn’t want that, I want money. I told him agriculture won’t put food on my table.

Who Moved My Choose?: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change by Deciding to Let Indecision Into Your Life

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

Dwayne Andreas

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

We have a strong agricultural heritage in Kansas.

Jim Ryun

Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us.

Zack Wamp

There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.

Gary L. Francione

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

Alfred Nobel

There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song.

Masanobu Fukuoka

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

Al Lewis

We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.

Alice Waters

If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.

George Nethercutt

Many environmental advocates argue that agricultural pollution will be reduced only through stronger federal laws.

Charles Duhigg

I always assumed the Department of Agriculture was the farmer and rancher's friend.

Jerry Moran

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

Mike Johanns