Quotes About Agriculture

In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and hope. And Odysseus finds him in an act emblematic of the best and most responsible kind of agriculture: an old man caring for a young tree.

And farmers, those whose lives are connected to the lake yet uninterested in it, sit atop green or red tractors beneath dusty brimmed hats, roll cigarettes, and pull at the earth for one more year like a pig suckling the hind teat.

The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly plowed, and still continues to be thus plowed by earthworms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures.

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.

In a basic agricultural society, it's easy enough to swap five chickens for a new dress or to pay a schoolteacher with a goat and three sacks of rice. Barter works less well in a more advanced economy. The logistical challenges of using chickens to buy books on Amazon.com would be formidable.

It took some time to make clear to those three sweet-faced women the process which robs the cow of her calf, and the calf of its true food; and the talk led us to further discussion of the meat business. They heard it out, looking very white, and presently begged to be excused.

Developed countries depend very little on rain, as this dependence creates high fluctuations in the output, year after year. Apart

One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones, walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plough along in spite of every obstacle.

A vineyard is planted poetry.

Plant carrots in January and you'll never have to eat carrots.

Can you do anything more fundamental than to raise food? Even Einstein has to eat.

Weed it and reap.

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

Zaman?nda di?er salg?nlar?n aras?nda, bugünkü terimiyle tahminen benzer veya ayn? olan "?arbon" hastal??? da vard?. ?nsanlarla birlikte çiftlik hayvanlar? ve atlar? da vuran ?arbon, baz? yazarlara göre MS 80'lerde Hunlar? da vurdu; Bat? seferlerinde 30 bin Hun, 40 bin at ve 100 bin büyükba? hayvan bundan etkilendi.

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To a great extent, the superior transportation and agricultural technology of Europe and its efficient economic and logistic methods made possible its triumph over the primitive world, not its customary military techniques and advanced weapons. The

Canada has the best farmers and food processors in the world. We are a global leader in agricultural production, and the sector is of great importance to our economy, our trade and our jobs. This is why the Government of Canada has targeted agri-food as key to Canada's path to prosperity, and to helping strengthen the middle class."

The Lord said "Let there be wheat" and Saskatchewan was born.

Ashes had always had some value to farmers as fertiliser,

Even the Jonestown Peoples' Temple Agricultural Project built community.

The shift from hunting-gathering to agriculture led to one very important development -- it laid the building blocks for civilization as we know it.

Die Mysterien, sagte Cheremon, haben alle miteinander noch eine Zeremonie gemeinsam: Ein Gott stirbt, wird begraben, wird mehrere Tage lang beweint; dann erfährt der Gott seine Auferstehung, und jedermann ist glücklich. Manche sagen, dies sei ein Sinnbild für Unter- und Aufgang der Sonne, aber im allgemeinen meint man damit die in die Erde gesenkten Getreidekörner.

Malnutrition and famines are common in some regions, but they result mainly from unequal distribution rather than adequate production, of food.

The horrific conditions in which billions of domestic animals are bred for food, milk, and eggs have also led to the spawning of new diseases such as the contagious swine flu that started on a factory farm in Mexico and noninfectious ones like E. coli, MRSA (staph), and salmonella.