Agriculture Quotes

• Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Noble
  • Employment

• The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Industry
  • Poisons
  • Phosphates

• 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.

  

  Cary Fowler
  • World
  • Learn
  • Danger

• Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.

  

  Nicholas von Hoffman
  • Poor
  • Aid
  • Agriculture

• Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.

  

  David Holmgren
  • Energy
  • Design
  • Information

• Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent settlement and agriculture.

  

  Alan D. Eames
  • Beer
  • Agriculture
  • Cultivation

• Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food.

  

  Albert Allen Bartlett
  • Food
  • Agriculture
  • Petroleum

• Since nature has the most sustainable ecosystem and since ultimately agriculture comes out of nature, our standard for a sustainable world should be nature's own ecosystem.

  

  Wes Jackson
  • World
  • Standards
  • Ecosystems

• Here we have 40 million Russian citizens involved in the sphere of agriculture one way or another. This is very important.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Important
  • Citizens
  • Spheres

• Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.

  

  Mike Johanns
  • Growing
  • Discipline
  • Dairy

• In my father's language: "To create something out of nothing." That possibility exists in India even in old-world sectors like agriculture.

  

  Mukesh Ambani
  • World
  • Language
  • Possibility

• Agriculture has become essential to life; the forest, the lake, and the ocean cannot sustain the increasing family of man; population declines with a declining cultivation, and nations have ceased to be with the extinction of their agriculture.

  

  Elias Hasket Derby
  • Life
  • Family
  • Cultivation

• Natural history is not only interesting to the individual, it ought to become a NATIONAL CONCERN, since it is a NATIONAL GOOD,—of this, agriculture, as it is the most important occupation, affords the most striking proof.

  

  Charles Willson Peale
  • Important
  • History
  • Concern

• We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • People
  • Education
  • Model

• This is an exciting time for farmers and ranchers of all types and sizes as agriculture is a bright spot in the American economy. In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Economy
  • Exciting
  • Producers

• Take agriculture, where we haven't done much, or sanitation; saying, "okay, we will be able to make a really huge effort there." It really energized the foundation and half of what we've gotten done in this last decade is because Warren Buffett trusted us.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Foundation
  • Warren Buffet
  • Sanitation

• If we don't get sustainability right in agriculture first, it won't happen anywhere.

  

  Wes Jackson
  • Happens
  • Agriculture
  • Sustainability

• Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is the No. 1 threat to biodiversity on the planet.

  

  Wes Jackson
  • Trying
  • Term
  • Acknowledge

• The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

  

  Milton Friedman
  • Government
  • Literature
  • Capitalism

• I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.

  

  Joseph Hume
  • Protection
  • Agriculture
  • Burdens

• I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Parent
  • Cities
  • Secretary

• There's an unexpectedly high share of workers still in agriculture, .. That's like a fault line.

  

  Edward Taylor
  • Fault
  • Workers
  • Agriculture

• Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons, some protection had to be given to the growing plants and animals, harvests had to be reaped, stored and divided. Thus, we might argue that it was neither leisure time nor a sedentary existence but the more rigorous demands associated with an agricultural way of life that led to great cultural changes.

  

  Charles Heiser
  • Discipline
  • Protection
  • Seasons

• The important thing is not to do any agriculture whatsoever, and particularly to make the modern agricultural sciences a forbidden area - they're worse than witchcraft, really.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Sciences
  • Agriculture
  • Witchcraft

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