Quotes About Agriculture

The Neolithic botanists'] was not a science of domination and classification, but one of bending and coaxing, nurturing and cajoling, or even tricking the forces of nature, to increase the likelihood of securing a favourable outcome. Their 'laboratory' was the real world of plants and animals, whose innate tendencies they exploited through close observation and experimentation.

In reality, there's every reason to believe that farming 'reached' California just as soon as it reached anywhere else in North America. It's just that (despite a work ethic that valorized strenuous labour, and a regional exchange system that would have allowed information about innovations to spread rapidly) people there rejected the practice as definitively as they did slavery.

On the contrary, the world of hunter-gatherers as it existed before the coming of agriculture was one of bold social experiments, resembling a carnival parade of political forms, far more than it does the drab abstractions of evolutionary theory.

Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.

Charantais melons

I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.

Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

Agriculture specialists say our farm production is increasing and will go on increasing. Thank God.

Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.

Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.

A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

If you send it halfway around the world before it is eaten, an organic food still may be 'good' for the consumer, but is it 'good' for the food system?

Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food.

Even people who like the kind of food on offer, are coming to recognize that eating from this food chain is not conducive to good health.

Once you get the government involved in agriculture you'll have nothing but problems and expenses.

It was one of the late Conservative Government's gestures towards agriculture -- graceful as a kiss, and of about as much use.

Great food, like all art, enhances and reflects a community's vitality, growth and solidarity. Yet history bears witness that great cuisines spring only from healthy local agriculture.

We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.

We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture.

The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.