Agriculture Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Agriculture

Agriculture Quotes & Sayings

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The lifeblood of Mercy For Animals is our undercover investigations of animal agriculture. — Nathan Runkle

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own. — Samuel Johnson

Wine is a gateway drug to environmentalism. — Katherine Cole

Eating is an agricultural act. — Wendell Berry

Wish all the Farmers would move to town one year, that's the only way I know to clear the thing up. — Will Rogers

If you eat, you are involved in agriculture. — Wendell Berry

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

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

The origin of agriculture involved both human intentionality and a set of underlying ecological and evolutionary principles. — Kent V. Flannery

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life. — Arthur Keith

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music. — John Quincy Adams

Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work. — Cato The Elder

We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology. — Leonid Brezhnev

Consequently, from the very advent of agriculture, worries about the future became major players in the theatre of the human mind. — Yuval Noah Harari

I am one of those who firmly believe that our cities thrive at the expense of our villages; that our industries exploit agriculture. — Verghese Kurien

He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest. — John Arbuthnot

To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit. — Sam Farr

Asking the Department of Agriculture to promote healthy eating was like asking Jack Daniels to promote responsible drinking. — Denise Minger

In a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of the best land with dubious efficiency. — Frances Moore Lappe

In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back. — Vandana Shiva

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

I dream of making India a $20 trillion economy. For that, I am pushing for agriculture, manufacturing and service sectors. — Narendra Modi

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

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

Because our agriculture is so spread out, that makes it vulnerable. Our food gets transported a number of times and very widely. — Donald Hamilton

I'm not interested in sustaining a planet on life support. My goal is to use agriculture to regenerate the planet. — Harry Stoddart

These dust storms ... Poor farmer spent a lifetime fixin' his farm and everything, goes out and looks down at it, and it's up above him. — Will Rogers

Brezhnev wasn't a minus for the history of our country, he was a huge plus, He laid a foundation for the country's economics and agriculture. — Leonid Brezhnev

The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock. — Michael Specter

Working in garden is like digging knowledge from the earth. — Karthikeyan V

The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star. — Wes Jackson

There is not a better day in the world to be spent than with a lot of wise old cowmen around barbecued beef, black coffee and good free holy beans. — Will Rogers

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

Today, if you pay a[n US] dollar for a pound of apples in the supermarketm only about six cents covers the farmwork used to get it there; ( ... ) — Tracie McMillan

Lenders make their choices with clear preferences: "Africans first, women first, and agriculture first" (Flannery, — Anke Schwittay

Sometimes the large scale organic farmer looks like someone trying to practice industrial agriculture with one hand tied behind his back. — Michael Pollan

Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing. — Mahatma Gandhi

It is impossible to have a healthy and sound society without a proper respect for the soil. — Peter Maurin

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

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

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

Never underestimate a farmer. — Lance Conrad

Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The farmers are the founders of civilization. — Daniel Webster

We have been living through a time of sorrow. Our seed remains seed. Our nostrils are dusty. — Warren Eyster

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

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. — Naguib Mahfouz

Where grows?
where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. — Alexander Pope

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

A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage. — Ovid

You got to do more than just live in the country to be a Farmer. — Will Rogers

In 1930, more than 20% of the American population was employed in agriculture. Today it's less than 2%. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Only a very foolish person would think that specialized knowledge is important in everything apart from agriculture and farming — Sunday Adelaja

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

If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science. — Samuel Johnson

The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front. — Atul Gawande

In the Middle West now you got to put a brand on your soil, then in the Spring go on a round-up looking for it. — Will Rogers

The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social experiment on a whole generation of children. — Ruth Reichl

Agriculture specialists say our farm production is increasing and will go on increasing. Thank God. — Vladimir Putin

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat. — Socrates

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

The divine chemistry works in the subsoil. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

The forager economy provided most people with more interesting lives than agriculture or industry — Yuval Noah Harari

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man — George Washington

The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal. — Wendell Berry

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place. — David R. Brower

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

Switching to all organic food production is the single most critical (and most doable) action we can take right now to stop our climate crisis. — Maria Rodale

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead. — Will Rogers

Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information. — James Howard Kunstler

When wildlife damages agriculture we eliminate the wildlife. Rather we should eliminate agriculture when it damages wildlife. — James Cook

The thing that impressed itself most on me in Holland was the thoroughness of the agriculture and the excellence of the Holstein cattle. I — Booker T. Washington

He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky. — Douglas William Jerrold

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

Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food. — Jeremy Grantham

A form of protectionism should be enforced at national level, at least on strategic areas such as agriculture. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

Jared Diamond to describe agriculture as "the worst mistake in the history of the human race.") — Gary Taubes

The real wealth of a planet is in its landscape, how we take part in that basic source of civilization- agriculture. — Frank Herbert

It looks to me like the candidates are trying to relieve the farmer of his vote, instead of his debts. — Will Rogers

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

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

Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food — Albert Allen Bartlett

BJP is committed to transform the agriculture sector. We want to increase farmer income and the purchasing power of villages. — Narendra Modi

I am saying that the recent activities by Turkey's Ministry of Agriculture, particularly the culling and communication work, is good. — Bill Vaughan

I always worried because whenever a drought struck, an accursed storm of blood always followed. — Bo-Young Kim

The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture. — Jacob Bronowski

Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation. — Thomas Jefferson

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

It was one of the late Conservative Government's gestures towards agriculture
graceful as a kiss, and of about as much use. — Sheila Kaye-Smith

Maize is just another word for white corn, and by the end of this story, you won't believe how much you know about corn. — William Kamkwamba

The CAFTA region currently imports $15 billion annually of U.S. agriculture and manufactured goods. — Ron Lewis

Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks. — Will Rogers

I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land. — Pawan Kalyan

A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people. — Wendell Berry

When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land. — John Stuart Mill

Cattlemen have lost more in the last few years than anybody and say less about it. — Will Rogers