Agriculture Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• 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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• Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Thinking, Noon

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.97

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• A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Self, Desire

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.795, Delphi Classics

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

  Sam Farr

  Able, Profit

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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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• Our point of view is, lets not be so elitist that we can't honor good, hard, dignified, ennobling work: people working with their hands, building things, putting up solar panels, weatherizing homes, working on organic agriculture, building wind farms. We don't have robots in society, so somebody has to do that work. Lets make sure that the people who can use that work get a chance to do it. I see that as a first step toward bigger and better things.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Work, Home

  "The Green Options". May 29, 2007.

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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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• Man has existed for about a million years. He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not much longer. Science, as a dominant factor in determining the belief of educated men, has existed for about 300 years; as a source of economic technique, for about 150 years. In this brief period it has proved itself an incredibly powerful revolutionary force. When we consider how recently it has risen to power, we find ourselves forced to believe that we are at the very beginning of its work in transforming human life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Powerful, Believe, Writing

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.1, Routledge

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• The Department of Agriculture announced that it will ban six new strains of E. coli. Which explains why the hot dog vendor outside my building is now just selling napkins.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Dog, Hot, Six

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• GMO agriculture will probably save the world in this century. But in the developed world, where few people are haunted by the specter of famine, people are free to fetishize heirloom tomatoes and worry about the provenance of what sits on their dinner tables.

  Annalee Newitz

  Gmos, Worry, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Writing, Farming, Scruples

  Edward Dahlberg (1964). “Alms for oblivion: essays”

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• Love had forged ahead so swiftly that in no time it had displaced agriculture as the leading industry of the period. To anyone who has tried both, this wont come as much of a surprise.

  Groucho Marx

  Love, Funny, Surprise

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• When not protected by law, by popular favor or superstition, or by other special circumstances, [birds] yield very readily to the influences of civilization, and, though the first operations of the settler are favorable to the increase of many species, the great extension of rural and of mechanical industry is, in a variety of ways, destructive even to tribes not directly warred upon by man.

  George Perkins Marsh

  Science, Men, Yield

  George Perkins Marsh (2001). “So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh”, University Press of New England

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• Agriculture is the new golf

  Ed McMahon

  Golf

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• Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon

  Tony Blair

  Environment, Wit, Sustainable Development

  Address at the Labour Party Conference, delivered 2 October 2001

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