Quotes About Agriculture

But this tractor does two things—it turns the land and turns us off the land. There is little difference between this tractor and a tank.

Y cuando aquella cosecha crecía y luego se segaba, ningún hombre había desmigajado un terrón caliente con sus manos, dejando la tierra cribarse entre las puntas de los dedos; ninguno había palpado la semilla ni anhelado que ésta germinase.

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.

God makes the harvest to grow. But we choose the kind of seed we sow.

I belong to a purely agricultural family from a rural background.

I am committed to strengthening our agricultural economy by protecting the unique interests of small and medium size family farms so that they can continue to operate.

My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.

I want to remain that family farmer independence, which I think is so critical to this country. I think it's helped build this country.

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.

We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer.

While vegans and meat-eaters disagree, we can all be united in our fear and hatred for the horror that is factory farming.

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture.

Rice," the Italians say, "is born in water and dies in wine.

Mexican Indians still say that scattered corn which has not been picked up will complain to God about it.

Perhaps the most important realization of all, although it is an uncomfortable one, is that the social ills attendant upon mechanized farming are the fault of the whole of society, and not only of the growers. The growers, after all, are trying to provide us with the two things we now demand: food which costs an unprecedentedly small proportion of our income, and the availability of the full range of all the varieties of food at all seasons of the year.

she had ordered a turkey from the Garfinkles, who raised them.

Though he had earned two hundred dollars from a crop and was not working at the time, Lorenzo declined his uncle's invitation to return to Illinois because he was considering going to school

He is but as the stubble of the field, and yet he has no beard.

Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.

The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.

The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.