Quotes About Agriculture

I never got to play as a child. All my spare time was spent working on my family's smallholding.

If you fill your Agriculture Committee with representatives of commodity farmers, and you don't have urbanites, you don't represent eaters, okay? You don't have people from New York City on these committees, you are going to end up with the kind of farm bills we have: a piece of special interest legislation.

Chapter 11 is an expensive process that does not accommodate the special needs of farmers.

Agriculture changes the landscape more than anything else we do. It alters the composition of species. We don't realize it when we sit down to eat, but that is our most profound engagement with the rest of nature.

Gluten intolerance and celiac disease are direct results of American agriculture policy and, specifically, the government's wading into the food arena.

A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians.

A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn will tassel and cotton will bloom into whiteness.

Man begets, but land does not beget.

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.

No man should be allowed to be President who does not understand hogs.

They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.

If you feed a man a meal, you only feed him for a day-but if you teach a man to grow food, you feed him for a lifetime.

He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.

So Enki was responsible, according to this myth, for irrigating the fields with his 'water of the heart.'

The Walmart was like a starship that had landed in the soybean fields.

Had these people been living in, for example, the agricultural paradise of the Nile Delta, they might have been able to get away with some mazy religious dogma as the basis for that system.

Much of it is open weed farms still

They walk into the hop field. Carefully. There is an enveloping smell, a resiny odor not unlike marijuana, the sharp smell that comes off an expensive beer.

I never realized the Department of Agriculture was involved in national security. Do you have, like, undercover cows?

same smell of lavender and honeysuckle and oily wool. We're crutching

was China in some sense a victim of its own success – stuck in a 'high-level equilibrium trap' by the ability of its cultivators to provide a vast number of people with just enough calories to live?

The sequence is clear: first the Glorious Revolution, then agricultural improvement, then imperial expansion, then industrial revolution.