Agriculture Quotes - Page 20

• The biggest threat to the American people today lies with the United States government. ... [T]he long-term solution is to dismantle, not reform, the iron fist of the welfare state and the controlled economy. This includes the end (not the reform) of the IRS, the DEA, the BATF, the SEC, the FDA, HUD, the departments of HHS, Labor, Agriculture, and energy, and every other agency that takes money from some and gives it to others or interferes with peaceful behavior.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Lying, Government, Iron

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• Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.

  Yanis Varoufakis

  Brave New World, Past, Technology

  Yanis Varoufakis (2015). “The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy”, p.43, Zed Books Ltd.

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• Ah! If nations could only agree to employ their resources to perfect agriculture and improve transportation, and to bring all their girl children a good education, what an explosion of happiness there would be on earth!

  Rosa Bonheur

  Girl, Children, Perfect

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• Tourism, viticulture and agriculture, logging and mining, ranching and manufacturing and ever-increasing numbers of small and medium-sized businesses are just a few of the industries, within this diverse riding, that help maintain a growing economy.

  Stockwell Day

  Numbers, Tourism, Riding

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• If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems labeling them as such. After all, cancer will kill one in every two men and one in every three women now alive, reports Samuel Epstein, chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition. Like our ancestors, we act in ways that will bemuse future societies. The military-industrial complex lubricates the mass-agriculture system with fossil fuels. Tons of heavy metals and other hazardous, even radioactive, waste is sprayed on American agricultural soil.

  Adam Gollner

  Military, Cancer, Men

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• The economy of the 21st century will come to center on agriculture. Life will be intensely and profoundly local in ways that we can't conceive of today. Economic growth, as we have known it in a cheap energy industrial paradigm, will cease.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Growth, Way, Energy

  Source: www.raisethehammer.org

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• That we don't design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.

  Bill Mollison

  Eerie, Design, Disaster

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor.

  Bill Mollison

  College, Earth, Damage

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• What is different and exciting is how much we have learned. We learned we were right that we don't need the chemical model of agriculture. We know so much more about the life of soil now and we understand how plants synergistically work together with microbes and animals to create healthy conditions.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Animal, Healthy, Working Together

  Interview with Karen Brown, blog.etsy.com. July 23, 2013.

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• At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about "a public debt being a public blessing"; that the stock representing it was a creation of active capital for the aliment of commerce, manufactures and agriculture. This paradox was well adapted to the minds of believers in dreams.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Dream, Wisdom, Blessing

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.239

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• When it comes to taking genes from viruses and bacteria and putting them into plants, people say 'Yuck! Why would scientists do that?' Because sometimes it is the safest, cheapest and most effective technology to advance sustainable agriculture and enhance food security.

  Pamela Ronald

  Technology, People, Viruses

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• Big oil, big steel, big agriculture avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and thus drive out of business the small entrepreneur. Also, in their conglomerate form, the huge corporations have begun to challenge the very legitimacy of the state.

  Gore Vidal

  Oil, Entrepreneur, Challenges

  Gore Vidal (1978). “Matters of fact and of fiction: essays, 1973-1976”, Vintage

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• We have to walk on two legs. We have to create conditions in which manufacturing and services - the economy outside agriculture - move and move fast enough. And at the same time the working force that is available must have skills which will fit the kind of jobs which will be in demand.

  Manmohan Singh

  Jobs, Moving, Two

  "PM's McKinsey Quarterly Interview". Interview with Rajat K. Gupta, archivepmo.nic.in. 2005.

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• He thus reaps the full fruits which result from his toil and labors with the incentive of free enterprise to maximize his effort to achieve increasing production. Representing over a half of Japan's total population, the agriculture workers have become an invincible barrier against the advance of socialistic ideas which would relegate all to the indignity of state servitude.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Wisdom, Japan, Ideas

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• People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more than anything else we do.

  Michael Pollan

  People, Profound, Engagement

  Source: leitesculinaria.com

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• A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection.

  Elias Hasket Derby

  Perfection, Doe, Soil

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• When harvests are exuberant, joy and health follow in their train; but let delusive prosperity draw industry from agriculture; let an insiduous disease attack one of its important products; let an insect, or a parasite, fasten on a single esculent, and mark the effect upon commerce and human life. Upon such an event all business is deranged.

  Elias Hasket Derby

  Joy, Important, Disease

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• Agriculture has become essential to life; the forest, the lake, and the ocean cannot sustain the increasing family of man; population declines with a declining cultivation, and nations have ceased to be with the extinction of their agriculture.

  Elias Hasket Derby

  Ocean, Men, Lakes

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• The [Democratic] party's become an urban party, and they don't get rural America. They don't get agriculture.

  Collin Peterson

  Party, America, Urban

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Agribusiness and food processing are important parts of modernizing our economy, of modernizing our agriculture and moving into a phase where a more modernized agriculture helps not only farmers but also helps consumers.

  Manmohan Singh

  Moving, Important, Phases

  "PM's McKinsey Quarterly Interview". Interview with Rajat K. Gupta, archivepmo.nic.in. 2005.

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• You can't do everything. You can't do health and forestry and agriculture. You've got to focus and do one or the other.

  Jane Goodall

  Focus

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Increasingly both environmentalists and animal ethicists recognize the enormous destruction caused by animal agriculture.

  Dale Jamieson

  Animal, Destruction, Enormous

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There are a lot of products still to be discovered in the world and experimentation, for example with seafood and fish. There are thousands of products that we're not eating right now that maybe will be cultivated in a good agriculture situation, a sustainable, ecological way. Maybe there will be textures or flavors we hadn't even thought of. In the Amazon there are 400 fruits that are not cultivated right now. They're just incredible fruits. Textures, tastes that we don't know right now.

  Ferran Adria

  Food, Texture, Flavor

  "World's top chefs talk cuisine, creativity in Chicago". Interview with Mark Caro, www.chicagotribune.com. March 20, 2014.

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• I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.

  Augustus

  Mean, Italian, Cities

  "Divus Augustus". Book by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus translated by Robert Graves, 1957.

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• You cannot, for instance, sustainably protect the environment if the majority of the people are still in primitive agriculture leading to the encroachment of forest reserves.

  Yoweri Museveni

  People, Majority, Forests

  "Listen to the Young, Says Queen". news.bbc.co.uk. November 23, 2007.

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