Crops Quotes - Page 2

• But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

  Sam Donaldson

  Ambition, Kids, Want

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• Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops.

  Rick Larsen

  Yield, Important, Quality

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• The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Engineering, Gmos, Issues

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• There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.

  Charles E. Wilson

  Country, War, People

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• That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.

  Thomas Carper

  Enzymes, Workplace, Plant

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• It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Wind, Sea, Ratios

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• Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

  Kary Mullis

  Years, Produce, Devices

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• That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

  Paul Muldoon

  Doe, Littles, Great Things

  Interview with John Redmond, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. November 2, 1995.

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• We don't survive without plants and animals because we rely on them, we rely on plants to put oxygen into the atmosphere, we rely on ... fish and crops and cows to eat.

  Naomi Oreskes

  Animal, Oxygen, Atmosphere

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• Vegetables are called 'specialty crops.' Don't ask me why.

  Chellie Pingree

  Vegetables, Ask Me, Specialty

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• People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.

  Bill Gates

  People, Climate, Enough

  "Q&A: Bill Gates on the World’s Energy Crisis". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. June 20, 2011.

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• If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.

  Bill Gates

  Practice, Use, Better Life

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• One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop. Marijuana can be grown almost anywhere, with little difficulty. It might not be easily marketable by major corporations. Tobacco is quite another story.

  Noam Chomsky

  Marijuana, Stories, Answers

  Noam Chomsky (1992). “Deterring Democracy”, p.122, Macmillan

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• Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners.

  Mark Udall

  Business, Rights, Law

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• Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Years, Twelve

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything.

  Michael Berryman

  Home, Dark, Glowing

  Interview with Vyeto Malesh, marsdust.net. January 22, 2017.

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• This bread I break was once the oat,
  This wine upon a foreign tree
  Plunged in its fruit;
  Man in the day or wind at night
  Laid the crops low, broke the grape's joy.

  Dylan Thomas

  Wine, Night, Men

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.101, New Directions Publishing

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• Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted.

  David F. Houston

  Land, Broken, Doe

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• Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Patriotic, Men

  Speech, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 Aug. 1857

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• Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.

  Alexander Pope

  Blood, Hands, Justice

  Alexander Pope (1829). “An Essay on Man: And Other Poems”, p.6

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• New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Add, Pests, Disease

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• Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.

  Wendell Phillips

  Rocks, America, Plymouth

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.231

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• The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

  Ovid

  Envy, Fields

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• By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.

  Richard Lugar

  Opportunity, Agriculture, Use

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• When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.

  Douglas Coupland

  Lying

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “Hey Nostradamus!”, p.67, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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