Quotes of: Agricultural Keyword

In the Communist era, excrement took on political importance, because Party policy decided excrement was essential for the Great Agricultural Leap Forward.

Rose George

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

Jerry Moran

What farmers gain most of all from the increase in agricultural productivity, of course, is choice.

Jacqueline Novogratz

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.

Giles Foden

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

What we must think about is an agriculture with a human face. We must give standing to the new pioneers, the homecomers bent on the most important work for the next century - a massive salvage operation to save the vulnerable but necessary pieces of ...

Becoming Native to This Place

Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent's economy and its people.

Richard Attias

'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.'

Matthew Scully

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.

Barry Commoner

In California, up to 15 percent of wells in agricultural areas exceed a federal contaminant threshold, according to studies.

Charles Duhigg

I think Jamaica would thrive if we promote agriculture as a way to bring people here.

Chris Blackwell

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

Allan Savory

When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.

Xun Zi

After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.

John Boyd Orr

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

Edward Thorndike

The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character.

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.

Richard Lugar

Penn State has also continued to be a leader in Pennsylvania's largest industry: Agriculture.

Tim Holden

Industrial agriculture freed many people to pursue lives their parents and grandparents could never have. It made America modern.

Michael Specter

The emphasis of my government is to take advantage from the Chinese experience in the fields of agriculture, fisheries, energy, infrastructure, development, health and high efficiency irrigation.

Asif Ali Zardari

Basically, the person in the White House should be principled, should have a philosophy about food that relates directly to organic agriculture. I will continue to push for that.

Alice Waters