Agriculture Quotes

• The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Civilization, Literature

  "Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition".

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• In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.

  Vandana Shiva

  Mother, Giving, Soil

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• Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Real, Silly, Garden

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.252

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• It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation.

  Irene Rosenfeld

  Mean, Environmental, Degradation

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• Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man

  George Washington

  Men, Employment, Noble

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• I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.

  John Salazar

  Country, Energy, Economy

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• If you eat, you are involved in agriculture.

  Wendell Berry

  Involved, Ifs

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• Everything else can wait, agriculture can’t.

  Norman Borlaug

  Waiting

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• For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than #‎ agriculture

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Wells, Profession

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.73

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• Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.

  Alexander Pope

  Toil, Soil, Blame

  Alexander Pope (1822). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.244

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• On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.

  Mike Johanns

  Years, Sides, Farms

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

  Samuel Johnson

  Giving, Riches, Crops

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• The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Garden, Goal, Perfection

  Masanobu Fukuoka (2010). “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming”, p.14, New York Review of Books

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• Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Liberty, Four, Pillars

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.

  Trofim Lysenko

  Practice, Theory Of Evolution, World

  Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1948). “Soviet Biology: Report to the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences”

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• There is not a better day in the world to be spent than with a lot of wise old cowmen around barbecued beef, black coffee and good "free holy" beans.

  Will Rogers

  Wise, Coffee, Black

  Will Rogers (1955). “Sanity is where you find it: an affectionate history of the United States in the 20's and 30's”

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• If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.

  George Nethercutt

  Winning, Committees, Ifs

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• I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares.

  George Washington

  Country, Real, Animal

  George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Peters (1847). “Letters on Agriculture from His Excellency, George Washington, President of the United States, to Arthur Young, Esq., F.R.S., and Sir John Sinclair, Bart., M.P.: With Statistical Tables and Remarks, by Thomas Jefferson, Richard Peters, and Other Gentlemen, on the Economy and Management of Farms in the United States”, p.12

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• When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.

  Xunzi

  Heaven, States, Frugal

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• By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.

  Richard Lugar

  Opportunity, Use, Cash

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• Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people, and the American continent received many people whose contributions are particularly clear in the agricultural and technical fields.

  Julius Streicher

  America, People, Fields

  "Der Stürmer" Newspaper, 1944.

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• The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

  Arthur Keith

  Discovery, Firsts, Steps

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.

  David F. Houston

  Important, Crops, Staples

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• Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

  Edward Thorndike

  Art, Psychology, Chemistry

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• Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

  Alfred Nobel

  Second Chance, Age, Humbug

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