Agriculture Quotes
High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage.
Alan AutryAlan Autry Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
Al LewisAl Lewis That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
James MadisonJames Madison It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent settlement and agriculture.
Alan D. EamesAlan D. Eames Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It’s agriculture. It’s golf courses. It’s domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.
Sylvia EarleSylvia Earle I want Britain to lead the world in food and farming and to do that we need enough productive agricultural land.
Liz TrussLiz Truss Therefore to talk about biodynamic gardening, biodynamic horticulture, biodynamic agriculture and the French intensive system is merely a horrible heading of terminology.
Alan ChadwickAlan Chadwick Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
Wendell BerryWendell Berry Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
Cato the ElderCato the Elder The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea.
Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
XunziXunzi Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production.
David RicardoDavid Ricardo That we don’t design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.
Bill MollisonBill Mollison If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner 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'SullivanBarry O'Sullivan