Quotes about Agriculture

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[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance t — Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
This is considered almost holy work by farmers and ranchers. Kill off everything you can't eat. Kill off anything that e — Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth. — Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation. — Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud. — Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerou — Winston S. Churchill, The River War
Only a very foolish person would think that specialized knowledge is important in everything apart from agriculture and — Sunday Adelaja
It could be said that a liberal education has the nature of a bequest, in that it looks upon the student as the potentia — Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
Awake! arise! the hour is late! Angels are knocking at thy door!They are in haste and cannot wait, And once departed com — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The sap is nourish from the root. — Lailah Gifty Akita
Eating is an agricultural act. — Wendell Berry, What Are People for Essays By Wendell B
...no matter how rhapsodic one waxes about the process of wresting edible plants and tamed animals from the sprawling va — James McWilliams
It is possible, I think, to say that... a Christian agriculture [is] formed upon the understanding that it is sinful for — Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
The marketplace is an institution that teaches self-advancement, private acquisition, and the domination of nature. Its — Donald Worster, Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination
The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on — Wendell Berry
What we must think about is an agriculture with a human face. We must give standing to the new pioneers, the homecomers — Wes Jackson, Becoming Native to This Place
Fast rather than slow, more rather than less--this flashy "development" is linked directly to society's impending collap — Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
It is impossible to have a healthy and sound society without a proper respect for the soil. — Peter Maurin
It is appropriate to speak of the artisans as possessed of wisdom (and not just "skill"), because the biblical writers s — Ellen F. Davis
You shall see rude and sturdy, experienced and wise men, keeping their castles, or teaming up their summer’s wood, or ch — Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / Walden / The Maine Woods / Cape Cod