Quotes About Agriculture

She'd thought the world was just hayfields and cornfields and and bean fields and apple orchards. The people who owned them and the people who didn't.

309Knee-high by the Fourth of July. So it must be June. Every farmhouse in its cloud of trees. There is a way trees stir before a rain, as if they already felt the heaviness. It all just went on and on, the United States of America. It was so easy to forget that most of the world was cornfields.

The legendary wheat-field triumphs came from financial incentives, irrigation, and the return of the rains, and they came at the expense of more important food crops. Long-term growth trends in food production and food production per capita did not change, [and] the Green Revolution years, when separated out, actually marked a slowdown.

Our bread is not what it used to be. It is more of a Frankenfood, a by-product of industrial agriculture or "super-starch and super-gluten." Combine that with the damage our guts have suffered from our diet, environment, lifestyle, and overuse of antibiotics, acid blockers, and anti-inflammatories, and you have the perfect storm for gluten intolerance.

Romans often took family names from agriculture, Cato

The mere phrase 'artificial manure' told the whole story.

Today 2% of the US population work in farming and agriculture, and we feed the entire world.

And if the feed costs rose, the suppliers would have to eat the losses.

This is the first of the series of three Comedies—'The Acharnians,' 'Peace' and 'Lysistrata'—produced at intervals of years, the sixth, tenth and twenty-first of the Peloponnesian War, and impressing on the Athenian people the miseries and disasters due to it and to the scoundrels who by their selfish and reckless policy had provoked it, the consequent ruin of industry and, above all, agriculture, and the urgency of asking Peace.

Corpse-food was on the way out even in your time," Anderson explained. "Raising animals to—ugh—eat them became economically impossible. I don't know how many acres of land it took to feed one cow, but at least ten humans could survive on the plants it produced. And probably a hundred, with hydroponic techniques.

It was a non-Hermian joke that any child who showed signs of interest in art, philosophy, or abstract mathematics was plowed straight back into the hydroponic farms.

the prairie towns no more exist to serve the farmers who are their reason of existence than do the great capitals; they exist to fatten on the farmers, to provide for the townsmen large motors and social preferment; and, unlike the capitals, they do not give to the district in return for usury a stately and permanent center , but only this ragged camp. It is a parasitic Greek civilization--minus the civilization.

I think, if Demeter had to put her religion down on a form, she'd put Organic.

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.

I don't know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It's really sad.

This is not good news for our modern industrial civilization because its capital stocks are supported by winnings from the geological lottery that laid down fantastic amounts of fossilized solar energy in the form of coal, oil, and natural gas. Even the very small fraction of our resource base that comes from the "paycheck" of agriculture, forestry, and fishing depends on fossil fuels.

I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.

The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.

deep-seated hatred between the cattlemen and the settler."40 This should come as no shock; the only surprise is that the big cattlemen would sometimes deny their attitude toward settlers. A settler who exercised his perfect right to 160 acres along a stream could significantly impair a big cowman's range; if several did so, the range would be lost altogether, as happened, for example, along Shell Creek in the Big Horn Basin.

Male violence toward women originated with agriculture, which transmuted women into beasts of burden and breeders of children.

Ritual regulation of production and belligerence means that domestication has become the decisive factor. "The emergence of systematic warfare, fortifications, and weapons of destruction," says Hassan, "follows the path of agriculture.

Agriculture creates and elevates possessions; consider the longing root of belongings, as if they ever make up for the loss.

SAMONIOS (Oct/Nov) "seed fall" (Samhain) DVMANN[OSIOS] (Nov/Dec) "dark month" RIVROS (Dec/Jan) "frost month" ANAGANTIO[S] (Jan/Feb) "stay at home" OGRONIOS (Feb/Mar) "ice month" CVTIOS (Mar/Apr) "shower of rain" also SONNOCINGOS "beginning of spring" "wind month" GIAMONIOS (Apr/May) "shoots month" (Beltaine)

SIMIVISONIOS (May/Jun) "mid spring" "bright month" EQVOS (Jun/Jul) "horse month" "time of the herds" ELEMBIV[IOS] (Jul/Aug) "stag month" "claim time" (Lugnasad) AEDRINIOS (Aug/Sep) "hot month" (Aed is "fire") "arbitration time" CANTLOS (Sep/Oct) "song month" (harvest)