Agriculture Quotes

The longer I think about a food industry organized around an animal that cannot reproduce itself wit...

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war...This is robber...

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the war...

We farm workers are closest to food production. We were the first to recognize the serious health ha...

When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilizati...

There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to...

You shall see rude and sturdy, experienced and wise men, keeping their castles, or teaming up their ...

Awake! arise! the hour is late! Angels are knocking at thy door!They are in haste and cannot wait, A...

Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ev...

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online serv...

Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of cor...

Fast rather than slow, more rather than less--this flashy "development" is linked directly to societ...

I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, ...

Food and medicine are not two different things: they are the front and back of one body. Chemically ...

When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence o...

Until there is a reversal of the sense of values which cares more for size and appearance than for q...

The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of huma...

In olden times there were warriors, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants. Agriculture was said to be cl...

If 22 bushels (1,300 pounds) of rice and 22 bushels of winter grain are harvested from a quarter acr...

If we're eating industrially, if we're letting large corporations, fast food chains, cook our food, ...

To a very great extent, it's the fast-food industry that really industrialized our agriculture - tha...

Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agricu...

Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If ...

How Does What We Eat Affect the Planet? The things you put on your fork have the power to affect not...

Pardon me, but my father says that it is a lie that Americans have everything. You have no sheep, no...

Praise a large domain cultivate a small estate.

The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that ev...

Agriculture must mediate between nature and the human community, with ties and obligations in both d...

In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and ho...

It is possible, I think, to say that... a Christian agriculture [is] formed upon the understanding t...

The most exemplary nature is that of the topsoil. It is very Christ-like in its passivity and benefi...

That one American farmer can now feed himself and fifty-six other people may be, within the narrow v...

If [the loss of fertility of the soil and the loss of soil as a renewable resource] does happen, we ...

It could be said that a liberal education has the nature of a bequest, in that it looks upon the stu...

Eating is an agricultural act.