Quotes About Agriculture

The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat.

There was a ploughboy, Dick, who sometimes came into our field to pluck blackberries from the hedge.

Well!—an honest and industrious farmer is one of the most useful members of society;

Fun fact: there are also 3,000 varieties of pears. That's right. Even PEARS are more complicated than you thought!

First agriculture, and then industry, changed two fundamental things about the human experience. The accumulation of personal property allowed people to make more and more individualistic choices about their lives, and those choices unavoidably diminished group efforts toward a common good.

farmer will tell you that fertile land is much more important than better seeds.)

The East India Company created, for the first time in Indian history, the landless peasant, deprived of his traditional source of sustenance.

William Digby calculated that 'the ryots in the Districts outside the permanent settlement get only one half as much to eat in the year as their grandfathers did, and only one-third as much as their great-grandfathers did. Yet, in spite of such facts, the land tax is exacted with the greatest stringency and must be paid to the Government in coin before the crops are garnered!

Agricultural taxes amounted at a minimum to half the gross produce and often more, leaving the cultivator less food than he needed to support himself and his family; British estimates conceded that taxation was two or three times higher than it had ever been under non-British rule, and unarguably higher than in any other country in the world.

The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal.

there are serious environmental and ethical problems with the industrial food system.

Likewise, Native American Hopi were traditionally taught by the Kachinas, spirit-like beings from other planets, who instructed them in agricultural techniques and gave them philosophical and moral guidelines that have shaped Hopi culture

There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources.

Search the Constitution and you will find no power granted to the legislative branch to make laws governing agriculture, housing, medicine, energy, private ownership or weapons, and a great deal more.

dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field...

Up from the meadows rich with corn,Clear in the cool September morn.

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

We crossed through cornfields and soy, a new planting of loblolly pines

When the sun shineth, make hay.

Native American farmers revealed all of these problems. Native Americans showed evidence of suffering diseases of civilization long before Western civilization arrived, which is why we need to define civilization as the arrival of domestication, of agriculture. We are really talking about diseases of agriculture and adoption of the sedentary way of life.

The Grow Biointensive method is especially important for areas with scarce water.

And what we're doing in Ohio is we're moving from a basic manufacturing economy to one that's diversified, including energy and health care and agriculture and IT.

the weather is such as I would favour if I were a potato-grower – or, more dubiously, if I were a potato.

Under Chairman Mao, every Chinese family was obliged to kill a sparrow a week to stop them eating all the rice. The project was ineffective because sparrows don't eat rice.