Agriculture Quotes - Page 17

• The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Land, Historical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.393, Penguin

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Competition permits the capitalist to deduct from the price of labour power that which the family earns from its own little garden or field; the workers are compelled to accept any piece wages offered to them, because otherwise they would get nothing at all, and they could not live from the products of their small-scale agriculture alone, and because, on the other hand, it is just this agriculture and landownership which chains them to the spot and prevents them from looking around for other employment.

  Friedrich Engels

  Garden, Hands, Competition

  44 Copy quote

• I believe we can create a truly humane, sustainable, and health food production system without killing any animals. I imagine a revolution in veganic agriculture in which small farmers grow a variety of vegetables, fruits, grains, and legumes, all fertilized with vegetable sources.

  Gene Baur

  Believe, Animal, Vegetables

  Gene Baur (2008). “Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can't remember one [example of regulation] that's good. Regulation of transport, regulation of agriculture - agriculture is a, zoning is z. You know, you go from a to z, they are all bad. There were so many studies, and the result was quite universal: The effects were bad.

  Ronald Coase

  Regulation, Study, Remember

  "Looking for Results". Interview with Thomas Winslow Hazlett, reason.com. January 1997.

  58 Copy quote

  Show source

• The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man. One must eat, one must have shelter. Next to religious worship itself, it is the spiritual handmaiden of our deepest convictions.

  Philip Johnson

  Spiritual, Religious, Inspiration

  Philip Johnson (1979). “The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1979: Presented to Philip Johnson”

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• They have a policy in China for their big companies called "Go abroad." It's a rational thing for both the company and the country to say, "We want big, successful companies." Particularly in areas where they need it: agriculture, energy, technology. I think banking, too. One or two have bought a trading house. Some have already begun expanding around the world. Of course they're going to have those ambitions. Why wouldn't they? They're just doing it methodically. It's a logical strategy and, well-executed, they will succeed.

  Jamie Dimon

  Country, Ambition, Successful

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's only a slight exaggeration to say we haven't progressed much beyond the invention of agriculture when it comes to our view of the natural world.

  Annalee Newitz

  Views, World, Natural

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The person who can most easily take up natural agriculture is the one who doesn't have any of the common adult obstructing blocks of desire, philosophy, or religion . . . the person who has the mind and heart of a child. One must simply know nature . . . real nature, not the one we think we know!

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Children, Block, Philosophy

  50 Copy quote

• Naturally and logically, people who forage rather than herd domestic beasts and tend crops for a living - that is, people who depend utterly on wild as opposed to agriculture nature for their welfare - inevitably come to view themselves as merely an element of it all, one member of an egalitarian community, alternately eating and being eaten.

  David Petersen

  Views, People, Community

  5 Copy quote

• One imputation in particular has been repeated till it seems as if some at least believed it: that I am an enemy to commerce. They admit me a friend of agriculture, and suppose me an enemy to the only means of disposing of its produce.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Enemy, Produce

  Thomas Jefferson (1950). “17 February to 30 April 1801”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Much of the criticism of economic globalization has centered on factory labor abuses. But the majority of the world's poor are not employed in factories; they are self-employed - as peasant farmers, rural peddlers, urban hawkers, and small producers, usually involved in agriculture and small trade in the world's vast "informal" economy .

  David Bornstein

  Self, Abuse, Criticism

  David Bornstein (2007). “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition”, p.156, Oxford University Press

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are scarcities in drinking water when you pollute the groundwater with nitrates. There is a scarcity in diversity when you create huge cornfields with the same strain of corn so that when one disease strikes - which happened in the United States in the 70s - all the cornfields in the country are wiped out. That was the first time the U.S. realized the value of diversity in agriculture and began to discuss genetic resources and their conservation.

  Vandana Shiva

  Country, Drinking, Water

  Source: scottlondon.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I worked on human rights projects in Haiti, Cameroon, and East Asia, and the bigger ones tended to do with agriculture. My role was to make sure that there was equity that remained at the base of those projects, with the workers. I had a couple of different lives.

  Sanjay Rawal

  Couple, Rights, Different

  Source: www.motherjones.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.

  Orville Redenbacher

  Indiana, Princeton, Moved

  5 Copy quote

• The water trading mechanism where there are transparent trades of water allocations is one that is good for us to learn from because it does allow for the marketplace to procure water for the highest and most efficient uses with the highest value in agriculture. And that might be a good model for us.

  Marc Levine

  Water, Doe, Use

  Source: www.abc.net.au

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• E'en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain Pluck'd from the brittle stalk the golden grain, Oft have I seen the war of winds contend, And prone on earth th' infuriate storm descend, Waste far and wide, and by the roots uptorn, The heavy harvest sweep through ether borne, As light straw and rapid stubble fly In dark'ning whirlwinds round the wintry sky.

  Virgil

  War, Dark, Light

  Virgil (1830). “Virgil”, p.79

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.

  John Bright

  Years, Great Depression, Harvest

  5 Copy quote

• Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me.

  Alfre Woodard

  Movie, Reality, Quality

  4 Copy quote

• As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases.

  Mike Rogers

  Animal, Pests, Disease

  4 Copy quote

• This is an exciting time for farmers and ranchers of all types and sizes as agriculture is a bright spot in the American economy. In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.

  Tom Vilsack

  Years, Income, Records

  16 Copy quote

• It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.

  Orville Redenbacher

  Rights, Coal, Easier

  5 Copy quote

• I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.

  John Adams

  Children, War, Political

  10 Copy quote

• A couple degrees warmer would be good for humanity and planet, especially with more plant-fertilizing carbon dioxide in the air. [...] But a couple degrees colder would bring serious adverse consequences for habitats, wildlife, agriculture and humanity."

  Paul Driessen

  Couple, Air, Humanity

  5 Copy quote

• But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Soil, Towns

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.149, Harvard University Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Cities originally surrounded by a wall can produce an urban population cut off from the surrounding fields and from agriculture altogether. At the same time, the greenbelt laws eliminate the possibility of the unchecked expansion of a city into a monstrous megalopolis. If there is a need for additional homes, a new city must be established.

  Yehuda Levi

  Wall, Home, Cutting

  4 Copy quote