Quotes About Agriculture

In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

Out of the long list of nature's gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone.

Since nature has the most sustainable ecosystem and since ultimately agriculture comes out of nature, our standard for a sustainable world should be nature's own ecosystem.

If you do not try to make food delicious, you will find that nature has made it so.

Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes

If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable.

A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop... it would diversify its crops to suit the earth

What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?

Rather than think about fields producing food, and the rest of the land producing everything else, we need to think about managing integrated, multifunctional, landscapes

When we destroy the fertile lands, we destroy our own good life!

The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it.

People believe a little too easily that the function of the sun is to help the cabbages along.

Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature.

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.

Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.

Life on the farm is a school of patience you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.

Peace, ... is crucial, because my government aims to hasten Mindanao's development by transforming it into the country's food basket.

My poor little New Zealand: exporting frozen meat in peace, live meat in war.

Plough your fields, cast your seeds, the rains will come when they please.

If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can pray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn.

Stocks may come and stocks may go, but food goes on forever.