Quotes about Agriculture

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In our day, there are stresses and fractures of the human-animal bond, and some forces at work would sever it once and f — Wayne Pacelle, The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them
There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war...This is robbery. The second by com — Benjamin Franklin
Now I would solicit the particular attention of those numerous people who imagine that money is everything in this world — Livy, The Early History of Rome:
The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves. — Frances Moore Lappé
I always worried because whenever a drought struck, an accursed storm of blood always followed. — Bo-Young Kim, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 104
We have been living through a time of sorrow. Our seed remains seed. Our nostrils are dusty. — Warren Eyster, The Goblins of Eros
Someday men will learn to irrigate and spread fertilizer instead of praying for fertility. — Warren Eyster, The Goblins of Eros
As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a su — Wes Jackson, Becoming Native to This Place
Pardon me, but my father says that it is a lie that Americans have everything. You have no sheep, no goats, no trees, no — Robert Fulghum, What On Earth Have I Done?: Stories, Observations, and Affirmations
When humans began cultivating the land, they thought that the extra work this required will pay off. 'Yes, we will have — Yuval Noah Harari, קיצור תולדות האנושות
Here are two facts that should not both be true: - There is sufficient food produced in the world every year to feed eve — Michael Dorris, Rooms in the House of Stone: The "Thistle" Series of Essays
The longer I think about a food industry organized around an animal that cannot reproduce itself without technical assis — Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Life cannot be without food; when we destroy the lands that give food, we destroy the foods that give life! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Food and medicine are not two different things: they are the front and back of one body. Chemically grown vegetables may — Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
Until there is a reversal of the sense of values which cares more for size and appearance than for quality, there will b — Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it — Jane Goodall, Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating
Today, if you pay a[n US] dollar for a pound of apples in the supermarketm only about six cents covers the farmwork used — Tracie McMillan, The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table
If 22 bushels (1,300 pounds) of rice and 22 bushels of winter grain are harvested from a quarter acre field, then the fi — Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
According to analyses conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 100 grams of fresh tomato today has 30 percent le — Barry Estabrook, Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
The prophet is always at the mercy of events; nevertheless, I venture to conclude this book with the forecast that at le — Albert Howard