Agriculture Quotes - Page 22

• I think the biggest impediment to fixing the food system in the United States is that we expect food to be cheap. We want to by other things with our money. We're so disconnected from agriculture - from the culture in agriculture.

  Alice Waters

  Thinking, United States, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If we don't get sustainability right in agriculture first, it won't happen anywhere.

  Wes Jackson

  Firsts, Sustainability, Happens

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• Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Country, Poor, Aids

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• Our current expectations for what our students should learn in school were set fifty years ago to meet the needs of an economy based on manufacturing and agriculture. We now have an economy based on knowledge and technology.

  Bill Gates

  School, Technology, Years

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• For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new uses of corporations, banks and securities, new machinery of industry and agriculture, of labor and capital - all undreamed of by the Fathers - the whole structure of modern life was impressed into this royal service.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Father, Civilization, Royal

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Luxury, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.25

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• Since nature has the most sustainable ecosystem and since ultimately agriculture comes out of nature, our standard for a sustainable world should be nature's own ecosystem.

  Wes Jackson

  Ecosystems, World, Should

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• The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man will have over matter, a few hundred years from now. We may learn how to remove gravity from large masses, and float them over great distances. Agriculture will double its produce with less labor. All diseases will surely be cured... even old age. If only the moral sciences could be improved as well. Perhaps men would cease to be wolves to one another... and human beings could learn to be human.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sorry, Distance, Men

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• Those who proposed the Constitution knew, and those who ratified the Constitution also knew that this is...a limited government tied down to specified powers....It was never supposed or suspected that the old Congress could give away the money of the states to encourage agriculture or for any other purpose they pleased.

  James Madison

  Government, Giving, Purpose

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• Government, not the oil industry, is the biggest 'profiteer' from oil. And it uses the tax revenue to expand its own authority at the expense of the individual, as it does with an endless number of other industries - including electric power, coal, lumber, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, aircraft, and agriculture. The Statist's intrusion to the free market is boundless.

  Mark Levin

  Government, Electric Power, Oil

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• When wildlife damages agriculture we eliminate the wildlife. Rather we should eliminate agriculture when it damages wildlife.

  James Cook

  Damage, Wildlife, Should

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• The government is now in a position to do what Franklin D. Roosevelt did during the Great Depression of the 1930s - use a crisis of the times to create new institutions that will last for generations. To this day, we are still subsidizing millionaires in agriculture because farmers were having a tough time in the 1930s.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Tough Times, Use

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• Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

  Mark Twain

  Government, People, Support

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.354, Velvet Element Books

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• There won't be some overnight miracle cure. But the measures I take will be sustainable. Our goal is to cease food imports within four years. This will create a minimum of 2 million jobs in agriculture.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Jobs, Years, Goal

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In many poor countries, if the daughter is told who she's going to marry, and told that she's going to live in the village with her husband's family, she really has very little opportunity to make her own decisions. If she comes for a while to work in a factory, she has her own money. In family agriculture, it's never your money. It's whatever somebody decides to give you. For many people this is tremendously valuable, because then they can step up.

  Pietra Rivoli

  Daughter, Country, Husband

  Source: content.time.com

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• Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics.

  Ramez Naam

  Forests, Source, Deforestation

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If you think about the last 50 years, Africa's proximity and historical context has absolutely been with Europe and the United States, but their approach in dealing with the economic challenges that Africa faces in particular has been one of handing out aid, not developing economies, not building a long term relationship around agriculture and so on.

  Dambisa Moyo

  Thinking, Years, Europe

  "The New Maritime Silk Road". Interview with Parag Khanna, bigthink.com.

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• I'm confident because of the - what we [USA government] call the strategic agreement we're now working on with them, we will be deeply involved within every aspect of their government from helping them improve their agriculture, to train air traffic controllers, to train pilots for the F-16s they're buying. So we'll have a deep relationship.

  Joe Biden

  Government, Air, Agreement

  "Transcript: Interview With Joe Biden". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.wbur.org. December 13, 2011.

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• Animal agriculture takes up an incredible 70% of all agricultural land, and a whopping 30% of the land surface of the planet. As a result, farmed animals are probably the biggest cause of slashing and burning the world's forests.

  Kathy Freston

  Animal, Land, Burning

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• For me the two biggest issues are climate change and animal welfare/animal agriculture. And oddly enough animal agriculture is such a contributor to climate change. According to the United Nations, 25% of climate change comes from animal agriculture, so every car, bus, boat, truck, airplane combined has less CO2 and methane emissions than animal agriculture.

  Moby

  Airplane, Animal, Two

  "Climate Champions speak out: Moby on Climate Change". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There are hundreds, even thousands of remarkable pilot or experimental projects in all fields - in agriculture, health, education. But where do these pilots take us? Do they lead to change on a broader scale? If not, how can we ensure that they have broader impact?

  Ruth Simmons

  Impact, Health Education, Pilots

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Media coverage of the legislative fights is overwhelmingly negative for agriculture interests. The impression left among consumers is that the proponents had something to hide.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Fighting, Media, Negative

  "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty: An interview with Wayne Pacelle". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

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• You need governance, but you also need a middle class, you need agriculture, they need to be able to export. I think that's probably the biggest issue, the job creation that could come with the kinds of things that Haiti has all the potential in the world to export.

  Sean Penn

  Jobs, Thinking, Class

  "A Minute With: Sean Penn on 'Gunman,' Haiti and superheroes". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, www.reuters.com. March 11, 2015.

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• Here we have 40 million Russian citizens involved in the sphere of agriculture one way or another. This is very important.

  Vladimir Putin

  Important, Citizens, Way

  Source: thesaker.is

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• Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.

  Vandana Shiva

  Diversity, Balance, Harmony

  Vandana Shiva (2011). “India Divided: Diversity and Democracy Under Attack”, p.68, Seven Stories Press

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