Agriculture Quotes - Page 7

• There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Cheating, War, Three

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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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• Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production.

  David Ricardo

  Cost, Might, Improvement

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (2000). “The Works of David Ricardo, Esq., M.P.: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.372, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.

  Friedrich List

  Growth, Increase, Proportion

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• As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community.

  Rick Larsen

  Years, Aggravation, House

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• I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.

  Joseph Hume

  Giving, Branches, Protection

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• True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Happiness, Power, Contentment

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• Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.

  Norman Borlaug

  Men, Survival, Inability

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat. That is why we must do more to open Cuba - not less.

  Max Baucus

  Cuba, Administration, Selling

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• The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.

  Barry Commoner

  People, Sick, Environmental

  Interview with Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Law, Doe, Demand

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• There's nothing like castrating 20 pigs before lunch. I did that during school whenever the need arose. They'd call out the agricultural class and put us in trucks to go help the local farmers.

  Fred Ward

  School, Pigs, Class

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• We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.

  Gordon Brown

  Country, Desire, Able

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• Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

  David R. Brower

  Diversity, Firsts, Made

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• Women can succeed in villages all over the world today without relying on heavy machinery or debt. They can take leadership roles in agriculture, eliminating hunger and inequity.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Roles, Debt, World

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

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• America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

  James Madison

  Art, America, Liberty

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• Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.

  Bernard Baruch

  Land, Cities, Roots

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• The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  People, Factories, Ruling

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• More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture’s relationship to nature.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Alternatives, Fundamentals, Strategy

  "We need regenerative farming, not geoengineering" by Charles Eisenstein, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2015.

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• Agriculture is the process of turning eco-systems into people.

  Toby Hemenway

  People, Process, Eco

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• One of the trends we're seeing in food and agriculture is more and more consumers wanting to know things about their food and where and how it's grown and what's in it.

  Dan Glickman

  Trends, Consumers, Food Safety

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• I dream of making India a $20 trillion economy. For that, I am pushing for agriculture, manufacturing and service sectors.

  Narendra Modi

  Dream, India, Pushing

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• The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.

  Norman Borlaug

  People, Different, World

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.

  Bill Mollison

  Change, Food, Garden

  "An introduction to permaculture". Book by Bill Mollison, 1991.

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• Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.

  Cato the Elder

  Farming, Late, Farmers

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