Quotes About Agriculture

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

My job as a comedian is to heighten awareness about locally grown produce, fight factory farming, and promote euthanasia, but in a funny way.

You're supposed to eat the cows. They're great big lumbering stupid things - they'd be everywhere if we didn't eat them.

If I had to pick another career, I'd be an optometrist for potatoes. That's where the money is.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fiber to sustain the world.

I looked at my father and looked at those dry fields [in Malawi]. It was the future I couldn't accept.

Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization.

The future of the world will belong to whoever can harness energy and food.

The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I don't know. Can fish play the piano?

In Australia we can take a playbook back to California from people who have actually adopted best practises, who have seen those practises play out over the years and plan for future droughts.

As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.

That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible.

In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India.

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.

The University of Ilinois has hired 15 women to smell pig manure all day so that researchers can find out what makes pig manure smell so bad. You know who I feel sorry for? The woman who applied for this job and got turned down.

If Pleasant Carter was jealous of his dashing younger brother with his automobile and his pockets full of crisp dollar bills, he never expressed it. But what he saw happening all around him made it harder and harder for him to see himself as a lifelong dirt farmer. A.P.'s wandering gene was always getting the better of him.

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Agricultural bots have the statistically lowest chance of accidental injuries but are physically the most terrifying. It's weird how something designed to take care of delicate lifeforms looks the most like it wants to tear you apart and eat your humans.)

Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.

The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.

Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.

Of all domesticated mammals, pigs possess the greatest potential for swiftly and efficiently changing plants into flesh.