Agriculture Quotes - Page 17

• The whole problem of industrial agriculture is putting all of your eggs in one basket. We need to diversify our food chains as well as our fields so that when some of them fail, we can still eat.

  Michael Pollan

  Eggs, Needs, Fields

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in terms of transitions from one mode of life to another. 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

  Thinking, Hunting, Light

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.

  Stephen Hopkins

  Birthday, Night, People

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

  Orville Redenbacher

  Rights, Coal, Easier

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• 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

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

  Orville Redenbacher

  Indiana, Princeton, Moved

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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”

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• 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

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• If farmers become weak the country loses self-reliance but if they are strong, freedom also becomes strong. If we do not maintain our progress in agriculture, poverty cannot be eliminated from India.But our biggest poverty alleviation programme is to improve the living standard of our farmers. The thrust of our poverty alleviation programmes is on the uplift of the farmers.

  Rajiv Gandhi

  Uplifting, Country, Strong

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• Along with currency manipulation, the New Deal introduced to Americans the spectacle of Fascist dictation to business, labor, and agriculture.

  Herbert Hoover

  Manipulation, Currency, Fascists

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941”

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• 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

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• 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

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• At the same time, African aims to intensify cooperation with China in the fields of trade, investment and agriculture.

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  Fields, Cooperation, Investment

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• I do think that there is a big difference between family farms and agri-business, and one of the distressing things that I think has occurred is with consolidation of farm lands. You've seen large agri-businesses benefit from enormous profits from existing farm programs, and I think we should be focusing most of those programs on those family farmers.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Land, Differences

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• We Communists have got to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology. But we are going to continue massive military programs. . . (soon) we will be in a position to return to a much more aggressive foreign policy designed to gain the upper-hand.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Military, Technology, Hands

  "Kissinger: The Secret Side of the Secretary of State". Book by Gary Allen, 1976.

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• The sanctuary would be the epicenter for the foundation. We'll have think tanks there. It's going to be a really, really amazing place. As an educational home base, we will also focus on the development of sustainable agriculture initiative. It's a huge project but one I am exceptionally passionate about.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Educational, Home, Thinking

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• The term biodynamics - push it aside, it is verbosity. It doesn't matter a bit. One has to use words to make headings, that's all it is. It's rather like the stupidity in a picture gallery today where you have to write under it what the scene or person is. It is equally as nonsensical as that. Therefore to talk about biodynamic gardening, biodynamic horticulture, biodynamic agriculture and the French intensive system is merely a horrible heading of terminology.

  Alan Chadwick

  Writing, Stupidity, Gardening

  Alan Chadwick (2008). “Performance in the Garden: A Collection of Talks on Biodynamic French Intensive Horticulture”, Logosophia

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• Providing clean, efficient solar/electric generators to industries such as oil companies, spanning from film and event production, construction, disaster relief, agriculture, forestry, and nonprofit organizations. We're literally helping green oil companies, helping them find ways to pollute less while creating jobs. When I look at the breadth of positive impact these technologies can have, I truly get excited. Imagine a generator where ZERO fuel is used!

  Ian Somerhalder

  Zero, Jobs, Technology

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• We need to make sure the Department of Agriculture is promoting farmers and ranchers.

  Jerry Moran

  Farmers And Ranchers, Needs, Promoting

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• ...think of agriculture as something the grasses did to people to conquer the trees.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, People, Tree

  Michael Pollan (2001). “The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World”, p.18, Random House

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• I wish for recycling to become a major industrial agriculture.

  Tishuan Scott

  Wish, Recycling, Majors

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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