Agriculture Quotes - Page 11

• We might hope that the law as a profession does not vanish, because justice may vanish with it - but we could probably do with far fewer lawyers. Since I think agriculture will come back closer to the center of life, I think there will be many vocational opportunities there - especially with the so-called 'value-added' activities associated with food production. That's a windy way to say more local wine and cheese-makers - and probably fewer giant factories producing cheez doodles and Pepsi Cola.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Wine, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly.

  Ovid

  Fields, Cultivation, Time Spent

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• Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Tree, Littles, Fruit

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• A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate and purple will do for the tragedians, not for life.

  Philemon

  Wine, Men, Purple

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• Essentially all civilizations that rose to the level of possessing an urban culture had need for two forms of science-related technology, namely, mathematics for land measurements and commerce and astronomy for time-keeping in agriculture and aspects of religious rituals.

  Frederick Seitz

  Religious, Technology, Land

  Frederick Seitz (2012). “The Science Matrix: The Journey, Travails, Triumphs”, p.8, Springer Science & Business Media

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• In a sense, the fossil fuels are a onetime gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and eventually should lead us to a future based on renewable resources.

  Kenneth S. Deffeyes

  Future, Science, Fuel

  Kenneth S. Deffeyes (2008). “The Future of Fossil Fuels: From "Hubbert's Peak"”, p.160, Princeton University Press

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• We have to see today in light of the transition, say, from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and from agriculture to industry, and from industry to post-industry. We're in an epoch transition.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Hunting, Light, Transition

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The divine chemistry works in the subsoil.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Chemistry, Divine

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• When I came to Detroit, if you threw a stone up in the air it would hit an autoworker on its way down. A few years after that, if you threw a stone in the air it'd hit an abandoned house or a vacant lot on its way down. And most people saw those vacant lots as blight. But meanwhile during World War II, blacks had moved from the South to the North. And they saw these vacant lots as places where you could grow food for the community. And so urban agriculture was born.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  War, Air, Years

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Once you get the government involved in agriculture you'll have nothing but problems and expenses.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Problem, Expenses

  "The Washington Post - The Candidates: Rep. Ron Paul". votesmart.org. October 12, 2007.

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• For example, they have land. The government of Qatar wants to lease the Tana River delta, which is in Kenya, from the Kenyan government, so that they can produce food there. People in Kenya need food. We have people who have studied agriculture. Why is it that if we really need food, we cannot go into the delta and develop our own food?

  Wangari Maathai

  Government, Qatar, Land

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• We could replace people with fossil fuels, have higher and higher levels of industrialization, of agriculture, of production, without thinking of the green-house gases we were admitting, and climate change is really the pollution of the engineering paradigm, when fossil fuels drove industrialism. To now offer that same mindset as a solution is to not take seriously what Einstein said: that you can't solve the problems by using the same mindset that caused them.

  Vandana Shiva

  Thinking, Engineering, People

  Source: www.nogeoingegneria.com

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• To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry also of the land, of the soil, of the domestic plants and animals. And so it appears that most and perhaps all of industrial agriculture's manifest failures are the result of an attempt to make the land produce without husbandry.

  Wendell Berry

  Husband, Animal, Land

  Wendell Berry (2009). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food”, p.75, Counterpoint Press

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• The most insistent and formidable concern of agriculture, wherever it is taken seriously, is the distinct individuality of every farm, every field on every farm, every farm family, and every creature on every farm.

  Wendell Berry

  Taken, Individuality, Fields

  Wendell Berry (2006). “The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays”, p.45, Counterpoint Press

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• Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as the poor, all that accrues from the revenues should be collected into a single fund and distributed in block grants to those in need, if possible in lump sums large enough for the acquisition of a small piece of land, but if not, enough to start a business, or work in agriculture. And if that cannot be done for all, the distribution might be by tribes or some other division each in turn.

  Aristotle

  Block, Land, Effort

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• 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

  Community, Movement, Share

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• My first banjo? My mother's sister, my aunt, lived about a mile from where we did, and she raised some hogs. And she had - her - the hog - the mother - they called the mother a sow - of a hog. And she had some pigs. Well, the pigs were real pretty, and I was going to high school and I was taking agriculture in school. And I sort of got a notion that I'd like to do that, raise some hogs. And so my aunt had this old banjo, and my mother told me, said, which do you want, the pig or a banjo? And each one of them's $5 each. I said, I'll just take the banjo.

  Ralph Stanley

  Mother, Real, School

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Almost all the knowledge required to produce more food than eroding soil is available today - we just need to use that knowledge within a holistic paradigm - managing agriculture holistically, forming the policies that undergird it holistically.

  Allan Savory

  Today, Soil, Needs

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• 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

  Country, Foundation, Economics

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• The Nuffield report suggests that there is a moral imperative for investment into GM crop research in developing countries. But the moral imperative is in fact the opposite.  The policy of drawing of funds away from low-cost sustainable agriculture research, towards hi-tech, exclusive, expensive and unsafe technology is itself ethically questionable.  There is a strong moral argument that the funding of GM technology in agriculture is harming the long-term sustainability of agriculture in the developing world.

  Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher

  Country, Strong, Technology

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• The central industry of modern civilisation, tending, because of its control over materials, to spread into and ultimately incorporate older industries such as mining, smelting, oil- refining, textiles, rubber, building, and even agriculture in respect to fertilizers and food processing.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Oil, Textiles, Rubber

  John Desmond Bernal (1965). “Science in history”

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• To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit.

  Sam Farr

  Able, Profit

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• All my plans in private life; all my pursuits; all my designs, wishes, and thoughts, have this one great object in view: the overthrow of the ruffian Boroughmongers. If I write grammars; if I write on agriculture; if I sow, plant, or deal in seeds; whatever I do has first in view the destruction of those infamous tyrants.

  William Cobbett

  Writing, Views, Tyrants

  Political Register, August 14, 1819.

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• A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people.

  Wendell Berry

  People, Doe, Soil

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• To be economical agriculture must be ecological.

  Charles Walters

  Ecological

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