Agriculture Quotes - Page 11

• I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Garden, Thinking, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787”, p.374, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We believe one magnificent highway of this kind [the Lincoln Highway], in actual existence, will stimulate as nothing else could the building of enduring highways everywhere that will not only be a credit to the American people but that will also mean much to American agriculture and American commerce.

  Carl G. Fisher

  Believe, Mean, People

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• Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.

  Alexander Pope

  Oats, Hands, Sowing

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• I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.

  Paul Wellstone

  Talking, People, Auditors

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• Many people think that when we practice agriculture, nature is helping us in our efforts to grow food. This is an exclusively human-centered viewpoint... we should instead, realize that we are receiving that which nature decides to give us. A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part of the whole process by which nature expresses its being. The farmer has very little influence over that process... other than being there and doing his or her small part.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Thinking, Practice, People

  "Masanobu Fukuoka: Japanese Organic Farmer". Interview with Larry Korn, www.motherearthnews.com. July/August 1982.

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• There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Song, Writing, Modern

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• Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of a stable social order.

  Bill Mollison

  Order, Ecosystems, People

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• Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.

  Prince Charles

  Often Is, Environmental, Cost

  "Organics Interview". Interview With Joanne Shoebridge, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2005.

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• Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation.

  Joel Salatin

  Land, Tools, Degradation

  "Interview: Joel Salatin" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2010.

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• In our society, we move people out of government. It's all operated by machines, meaning – not the people, just the products: the farming, the agriculture, the production – it's all machine-designed and programming. But it does not program or design people. People are free to live whatever lifestyle they want to. If they hurt other people, they're helped – they’re not put in prisons

  Jacque Fresco

  Hurt, Moving, Government

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• You can't participate in agriculture or redesign of aircraft for making them safer if you know nothing about it.  So, whenever a person says 'will I be participating in the new world?'  Only in areas that you can participate it.  Areas that you have competence in. I'm not talking about self confidence, I'm talking about the ability to solve problems.  Electrical, chemical, technical.  I don't know of any other kind of problem.

  Jacque Fresco

  Self Confidence, Talking, World

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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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• Sara Scherr and Jeff McNeely have given us a thoughtful, sensible book about a topic of great importance to the world. There is no food security, no poverty reduction, no environmental sustainability without transforming our agricultural practices. The book ?presents well documented cases of best practices from all over the world. It should be required reading for all concerned with agriculture, the environment, food security or just the future of our children.

  Ismail Serageldin

  Children, Book, Reading

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• When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.

  John Stuart Mill

  Horse, Land, Three

  John Stuart Mill (1871). “Priciples of POlitical Economy”, p.335

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• The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I don't know. Can fish play the piano?

  Cary Fowler

  Motivation, Inspiration, Past

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• Our agricultural economy in the Hudson Valley continues to face historically low prices and producer income, as well as losses due to weather and other disasters.

  Sue Kelly

  Loss, Weather, Faces

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• In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.

  Stephen Cole Kleene

  Fall, Maine, My Family

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• To the greatest extent possible, I try to make choices that involve the least amount of cruelty and environmental damage. I'm interested in sustainable agriculture, environmental issues, human rights, and my interconnectedness in the web of life. It is a great pleasure for me to find products and practices that have a positive effect on living beings and the environment, rather than a negative one.

  Vesanto Melina

  Rights, Practice, Web Of Life

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• Usually, the first thing a country does in the course of economic development is to introduce a lot of livestock. Our data are showing that this is not a very smart move and the Chinese are listening. They are realizing that animal-based agriculture is not the way to go.... We are basically a vegetarian species and should be eating a wide variety of plant food and minimizing our intake of animal foods.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Country, Smart, Moving

  "Huge Study Of Diet Indicts Fat And Meat" by Jane E. Brody, www.nytimes.com. May 08, 1990.

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• Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.

  G. Stanley Hall

  School, Development, Motor

  G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.165, Read Books Ltd

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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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• A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people.

  Wendell Berry

  People, Doe, Soil

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• I am persuaded to think that any climate change is bad because of the investments and adaptations that have been made by human beings and all of the things that support human existence upon this globe. Even minor fluctuations of climate could change the distribution of fish, … upset agriculture,…and inundate costal cities…… Such changes could occur at a faster rate perhaps than human society can evolve.

  Fred Singer

  Thinking, Cities, Support

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• If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

  Samuel Johnson

  Firsts, Dignity, Ifs

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.220

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• From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which I find healthful to my body, mind, and affairs.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mind, Noon, Breakfast

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.233, Rowman & Littlefield

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