Top Agriculture Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Agriculture quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Vandana Shiva
Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.
- Vandana Shiva
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Thomas Tusser
Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest.
- Thomas Tusser
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Thomas Tusser
Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.
- Thomas Tusser
Collection: Agriculture
Image of James Howard Kunstler
The economy of the 21st century will come to center on agriculture. Life will be intensely and profoundly local in ways that we can't conceive of today. Economic growth, as we have known it in a cheap energy industrial paradigm, will cease.
- James Howard Kunstler
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Michael Pollan
People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more than anything else we do.
- Michael Pollan
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Norman Borlaug
Everything else can wait, agriculture can’t.
- Norman Borlaug
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Bill Mollison
Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of a stable social order.
- Bill Mollison
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Bill Mollison
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
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Charles Eisenstein
More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture’s relationship to nature.
- Charles Eisenstein
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Frances Moore Lappé
Many families participate in the Community Supported Agriculture movement, which allows a family to buy shares in a farmer's produce so that they know where their food is coming from, and they can take their families out and see the farm and meet the farmer. That movement has helped create a new culture around food.
- Frances Moore Lappé
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Olusegun Obasanjo
At the same time, African aims to intensify cooperation with China in the fields of trade, investment and agriculture.
- Olusegun Obasanjo
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Wes Jackson
If we don't get sustainability right in agriculture first, it won't happen anywhere.
- Wes Jackson
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Wes Jackson
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
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Wes Jackson
As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a sustainable culture, community becomes the locus and metaphor for both agriculture and culture.
- Wes Jackson
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Jacques Diouf
Agriculture and intercultural dialogue: our common heritage.
- Jacques Diouf
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Richard Henry Horne
Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight with all your powers!
- Richard Henry Horne
Collection: Agriculture
Image of 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.
- Jared Diamond
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Ronald Coase
I can't remember one [example of regulation] that's good. Regulation of transport, regulation of agriculture - agriculture is a, zoning is z. You know, you go from a to z, they are all bad. There were so many studies, and the result was quite universal: The effects were bad.
- Ronald Coase
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Ruth Simmons
There are hundreds, even thousands of remarkable pilot or experimental projects in all fields - in agriculture, health, education. But where do these pilots take us? Do they lead to change on a broader scale? If not, how can we ensure that they have broader impact?
- Ruth Simmons
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Edward Taylor
There's an unexpectedly high share of workers still in agriculture, .. That's like a fault line.
- Edward Taylor
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Jean-Baptiste Say
Every individual, from the common mechanic, that works in wood or clay, to the prime minister that regulates with the dash of his pen the agriculture, the breeding of cattle, the mining, or the commerce of a nation, will perform his business the better, the better he understands the nature of things,and the more his understanding is enlightened.
- Jean-Baptiste Say
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Yoweri Museveni
You cannot, for instance, sustainably protect the environment if the majority of the people are still in primitive agriculture leading to the encroachment of forest reserves.
- Yoweri Museveni
Collection: Agriculture
Image of David Holmgren
Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.
- David Holmgren
Collection: Agriculture
Image of 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.
- Dan Barber
Collection: Agriculture
Image of 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.
- Dan Glickman
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Toby Hemenway
Agriculture is the process of turning eco-systems into people.
- Toby Hemenway
Collection: Agriculture
Image of 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.
- Helena Norberg-Hodge
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Dwayne Andreas
Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn’t need us? What in the hell would they do with the farm program without us?
- Dwayne Andreas
Collection: Agriculture
Image of John Arbuthnot
He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.
- John Arbuthnot
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Ramez Naam
Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics.
- Ramez Naam
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Barry O'Sullivan
Agriculture's not insulated from having a percentage of people who might be really good old graziers, but they're no good as business people.
- Barry O'Sullivan
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Charles Walters
To be economical agriculture must be ecological.
- Charles Walters
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Elias Hasket Derby
A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection.
- Elias Hasket Derby
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Elias Hasket Derby
When harvests are exuberant, joy and health follow in their train; but let delusive prosperity draw industry from agriculture; let an insiduous disease attack one of its important products; let an insect, or a parasite, fasten on a single esculent, and mark the effect upon commerce and human life. Upon such an event all business is deranged.
- Elias Hasket Derby
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Marc Levine
The water trading mechanism where there are transparent trades of water allocations is one that is good for us to learn from because it does allow for the marketplace to procure water for the highest and most efficient uses with the highest value in agriculture. And that might be a good model for us.
- Marc Levine
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Tishuan Scott
I wish for recycling to become a major industrial agriculture.
- Tishuan Scott
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Will Rogers
Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks.
- Will Rogers
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Michael Pollan
The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.
- Michael Pollan
Collection: Agriculture
Image of 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.
- Mao Zedong
Collection: Agriculture
Image of 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
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Ovid
A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.
- Ovid
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Bill Mollison
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
Collection: Agriculture
Image of 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.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Ovid
Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly.
- Ovid
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Frances Moore Lappé
Women can succeed in villages all over the world today without relying on heavy machinery or debt. They can take leadership roles in agriculture, eliminating hunger and inequity.
- Frances Moore Lappé
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Alexander Pope
Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
- Alexander Pope
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Will Rogers
Don't raise anything, except what fits your appetite. Then the price don't worry you. Just raise all you can eat and let the low prices go by.
- Will Rogers
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Will Rogers
Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.
- Will Rogers
Collection: Agriculture
Image of Will Rogers
Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.
- Will Rogers
Collection: Agriculture