Agriculture Quotes - Page 6

• Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Independent, Garden

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.62, Rowman & Littlefield

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• To see rich land eaten away by erosion, to stand by as continual cultivation on sloping fields wears away the best soil, is enough to make a good farmer sick at heart.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Heart, Erosion, Land

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• Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Funny, Humor, Garden

  Of Australia. The Wit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold (published 1859),'A Land of Plenty'.

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• Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.

  Christopher Bond

  Jobs, Technology, Growth

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• In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

  Garrett Hardin

  Real, Discovery, Long

  Garrett James Hardin (1976). “Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle”

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• Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.

  Martin Heidegger

  Country, Essence, Hydrogen Bomb

  "The Question Concerning Technology". Book by Martin Heidegger, 1954.

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• Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.

  Jim Hightower

  Boys, Littles, Problem

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• I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

  Al Lewis

  North Carolina, Unions, Workers

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• As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Goal, Democracy, Finals

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• Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

  Quintilian

  Soil, Students, Talent

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.17, Delphi Classics

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• With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

  Bertrand Russell

  Long, Machines, Misery

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.57, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.

  Arthur Keith

  Discovery, Groups, Fertility

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Division, Company

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• We're the biggest food and agriculture company in the world.

  Dwayne Andreas

  World, Company

  "Dwayne’s World" by Dan Carney, www.motherjones.com. July/August 1995.

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• Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.

  Pat Roberts

  Real, Community, Risk

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• In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.

  Carol P. Christ

  Art, Discovery, Europe

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• Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.

  Pat Roberts

  President, Fans, May

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• People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That's easily overlooked.

  John Anderson

  Jobs, Australia, People

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• On this National Agriculture Day, when we all should be taking time to thank and pay tribute to America's farmers, ranchers and their families who produce the food for our tables, we are finding those same people in dire need of our help and support.

  Michael McCaul

  Help And Support, America, People

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• Texas has been hit especially hard this year by a continuing drought, threatening high winds and increasingly destructive range fires. Simply, these conditions have lead to extremely adverse conditions in the agriculture industry.

  Michael McCaul

  Fire, Texas, Years

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• The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.

  John Bruton

  Country, Japan, Doe

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• Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us.

  Zach Wamp

  America, Firsts, Manufacturing

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• Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man; studies are for shaping attitudes, feelings, desires, emotions and impulses of man, so that they may confer more peace, more joy and more fortitude on man.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Attitude, Men, Skills

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• Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Independent, Healthy, Occupation

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• Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight with all your powers!

  Richard Henry Horne

  Mind, Looks, Bears

  Richard Henry Horne, “The Plough, A Landscape In Berkshire”

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