Quotes About Agriculture

A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

Plant no other tree before the vine.

We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.

nineteenth-century Populist Party leader Tom Watson as he spoke to his white and black followers: "The accident of color can make no difference in the interest of farmers, croppers, and laborers … You are kept apart that you may be separately fleeced of your earnings."3

Israel was born so Jews could finally cultivate their land with their own hands. But the most important thing to remember is that we depended more upon our brain than our muscle. We learned that the treasures hidden in ourselves are far greater than anything that can be found in the ground.

Plough your fields, cast your seeds, the rains will come when they please.

Teach the young minds the agriculture rather than technology.

The rain will fall down, just prepare the soil.

On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.

Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it.

If we want our bodies to be healthier, we need to get off the salmonella, e-coli, mad cow, assembly-line toxic hell train! God I love that statement. What did I just say?

I've got a farm in Somerset, and I think it's God's own country. I love it.

Just when I thought it couldnt get no hotter I fell in love with the farmer's daughter

Love had forged ahead so swiftly that in no time it had displaced agriculture as the leading industry of the period. To anyone who has tried both, this wont come as much of a surprise.

But the men—hungry, greedy, tired of planting in dry soil—had been forced to leave the village in order to send food-money home.

Here they all were together, idle above their fields, nobody hoeing, godlike; nobody weeding, New Year's in summer.

Hengall the Warrior hated war. The business of life, he liked to say, is to plant grain, not blades.

The rain feeds the seed, and the seed the mill. When the rain stops, the mill wheels stop — or, if they continue to turn, they grind despair for the man who owns them. My father owned them.

After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.

Meat production is one of the leading causes of climate change because of the destruction of the rainforest for grazing lands, the massive amounts of methane produced by farm animals and the huge amounts of water, grain and other resources required to feed animals.

As an environmental scientist, I think our first need is to feed and shelter and nurture. That has always required the exploitation of plant life, and it always will.

I was introduced to the world of modern food production in the mid-1990s, while researching an article about California's strawberry industry for the 'Atlantic Monthly.'

The national raisin reserve is real.

We shouldn't let anti-science zealotry shut down the ability to produce low-cost, quality food for billions across the globe.