Agriculture Quotes - Page 8

• Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

  Joseph Joubert

  Kind, Excellent, Good Sense

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.

  Vandana Shiva

  Care, Sustainability, Complexity

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• Extreme weather like the droughts in Russia, China and Brazil and the flooding in Pakistan and Australia [in 2010] have contributed to a level of food price volatility we haven't seen since the oil crisisof 40 years ago. Unfortunately, this could be just a taste of things to come because in the next few decades the build-up of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere could greatly increase the risk of droughts, flooding, pest infestation and water scarcity for agriculture systems already under tremendous stress.

  John Beddington

  Stress, Weather, Oil

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• 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

  Oil, Way, Modern

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• I carry in my datebook a piece of paper that my mother copied out for me, from the 1840 Census. Hardy Callaway Culver of Hancock County, Georgia, had 42 slaves, 31 "employed in agriculture." Culver was my great-great-great grandfather. I carry this piece of paper with me every day because I don't want to forget. I don't know what to do with the information, but I don't want to forget it.

  Laura Lippman

  Mother, Grandfather, Pieces

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• Women have an important role in agriculture. We need to introduce technology, which will help us harness the potential of women in agriculture. We need to divide the agriculture sector into three parts- regular farming, farming of trees and animal husbandry. If we are able to do this, the contribution of our women will increase even more.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, Animal, Tree

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• I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.

  James Earl Jones

  Kids, Thinking, Balance

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Uncles, Dad, Bigs

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• There are no miracles in agricultural production.

  Norman Borlaug

  Miracle, Productions

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude implement of tillage in the hands or prehistoric man. It has been going on ever since, wherever man's culture of the earth has bared the soil to rain and wind.

  Hugh Hammond Bennett

  Rain, Men, Erosion

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• I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.

  Bernard Hinault

  Directors, France, Maintaining

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• Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

  Hermann Goring

  War, Communist Leaders, People

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• I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

  Skeet Ulrich

  North Carolina, Towns, Farming

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• Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate change.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Numbers, Climate

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2010). “Eating Animals”, p.41, Penguin UK

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• If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

  Ian Hacking

  People, Bombs, Killing

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• Most things, except agriculture, can wait

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Waiting

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• Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?

  Jane Goodall

  Dark, Ideas, Poison

  FaceBook post by Dr. Jane Goodall from Mar 11, 2017

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• A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

  Gertrude Stein

  Food, Garden, Vegetables

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.46, Random House

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• Politics was good a hundred years ago. Today, politicians have no ability to solve any problems because they are not students of behavior. They are not students of agriculture, oceanography - they know nothing about the factors that operate the world.

  Jacque Fresco

  Years, World, Today

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• Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food.

  Albert Allen Bartlett

  Land, Use, Modern

  "Forgotten Fundamentals of the Energy Crisis" by Albert A. Bartlett in "American Journal of Physics", Volume 46, No. 9 (pp. 876-888), September 1978.

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• Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution.

  Robert Kennedy

  America, Water, Half

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• We have to rethink how we're going to live on this earth - stop talking about the fact that we've got to have agriculture, we've got to have exports, because all that is the death of us.

  Bill Mollison

  Talking, Earth, Facts

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.

  David Ricardo

  Land, Together, Usual

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1871). “The Works of David Ricardo: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.371

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• The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco.

  Jim Bunning

  Kentucky, Who We Are, Foundation

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• I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

  Sam Donaldson

  Boys, Typical, Looks

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