Agriculture Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• 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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• Eventually, humans invented agriculture, which could be understood as a way of turning the natural world into a tool for our use. There's evidence that we have been domesticating crops and animals for at least 15,000 years, adapting ecosystems to our preferred way of life.

  Annalee Newitz

  Animal, Years, Ecosystems

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• It's an attitude of superiority. We are superior to the rest of life. The Book of Genesis says: 'Increase and multiply and have dominion over the birds of the air and the animals and so forth.' You run it; it's yours; do what you like with it. I don't know how old that text is, but it represents an attitude that probably really got going with the beginning of agriculture. Before that, the hunter-gatherers were gentler people than the agriculture.

  W. S. Merwin

  Running, Attitude, Book

  "An Interview with W. S. Merwin, Poet Laureate". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. October 25, 2010.

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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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• ...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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• A man who took great pride in his lawn found himself with a large crop of dandelions. He tried every method he knew to get rid of them. Still they plagued him. Finally he wrote the department of agriculture. He enumerated all the things he had tried and closed his letter with the question: "What shall I do now?" In due course the reply came: "We suggest you learn to love them."

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Pride, Men

  Anthony De Mello (2016). “The Song of the Bird”, p.65, Image

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• This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing. It's not as though the rest of us don't countenance the killing of tens of millions of animals every year. Yet for some reason we feel more comfortable with the mechanical killing practiced, out of view and without emotion by industrial agriculture.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, Hunting, Views

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.182, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The UN special envoy on food called it a 'crime against humanity' to funnel 100 million tons of grain and corn to ethanol when almost a billion people are starving. So what kind of crime is animal agriculture, which uses 756 million tons of grain and corn per year, much more than enough to adequately feed the 1.4 billion human who are living in dire poverty?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Years, People

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2009.

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• Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by farmers. The spread of farming from those few sites of origin usually did not occur as a result of the hunter-gatherers' elsewhere adopting farming; hunter-gatherers tend to be conservative.... Instead, farming spread mainly through farmers' outbreeding hunters, developing more potent technology, and then killing the hunters or driving them off of all lands suitable for agriculture.

  Jared Diamond

  Technology, Years, Land

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• To me, one of the easiest ways of addressing climate change and potentially remedying climate change is to stop subsidizing animal agriculture.

  Moby

  Animal, Climate, Way

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• Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sowing, Farming, Difficult

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• In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools.

  Prince Philip

  Tools, Machines, Wealth

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• The idea of hunting and gathering as the best way for life has become quite popular recently, much more populare in some circles than the idea of simple farming as the best way of life. Many of the new primitives regard the beginnings of agriculture as one of humanity's major steps in the wrong direction. Most of the people who are drawn to such ideas do their actual hunting and gathering in grocery stores, but the *feeling* is there; it takes the form of a religion...expressed by particpating in American Indian rituals - or primitive-style rituals that are created anew.

  Walter Truett Anderson

  Hunting, Simple, Circles

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• Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service.

  Patch Adams

  Art, Cancer, Health

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• The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

  Michael Pollan

  Subsidies, Poverty, Obesity

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• The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities. It has been found possible so to mold the mind of the masses that they will throw their newly gained strength in the desired direction. In the present structure of society, this practice is inevitable. Whatever of social importance is done today, whether in politics, finance, manufacture, agriculture, charity, education, or other fields, must be done with the help of propaganda. Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.

  Edward Bernays

  Powerful, Practice, Government

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• One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and is now used for agriculture or urban development. The polar icecaps are shrinking and the desert areas are increasing. At night, the Earth is no longer dark, but large areas are lit up. All of this is evidence that human exploitation of the planet is reaching a critical limit. But human demands and expectations are ever-increasing. We cannot continue to pollute the atmosphere, poison the ocean and exhaust the land. There isn't any more available.

  Stephen Hawking

  Ocean, Dark, Night

  "The 11th Hour". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil is first sought for, then a skilful husbandman, and then good seed; in the same way nature corresponds to the soil, the teacher to the husbandman, precepts and instruction to the seed.

  Plutarch

  Teacher, Nature, Men

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• Essentially, by 2050 we need all activities outside agriculture to be near zero carbon emitting if we are to stop carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere growing

  David Miliband

  Zero, Atmosphere, Needs

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• Every individual, from the common mechanic, that works in wood or clay, to the prime minister that regulates with the dash of his pen the agriculture, the breeding of cattle, the mining, or the commerce of a nation, will perform his business the better, the better he understands the nature of things,and the more his understanding is enlightened.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Understanding, Woods, Clay

  Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, J.R. McCulloch (2013). “History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch”, p.133, Coventry House Publishing

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• Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues

  Jim Hightower

  Nature, Pesticides, Fairness

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• Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture.

  Tony Benn

  Creativity, Support, Movement

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• Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.

  Brion James

  Cowboy, Play, California

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