#agriculture

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #agriculture




If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.


Barry Commoner


#activity #agriculture #answer #ask #change

The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.


Barry Commoner


#arises #crisis #die #energy #environmental

Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.


Arthur Keith


#before #being #determined #discovery #divided

This is an exciting time for farmers and ranchers of all types and sizes as agriculture is a bright spot in the American economy. In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.


Tom Vilsack


#agriculture #american #american economy #best #bright

To keep farmers on the farm we must maintain a strong farm safety net, but we will also have to build a thriving companion economy to compliment production agriculture in rural America.


Tom Vilsack


#also #america #build #companion #compliment

USDA is committed to keeping pace with the needs and progress of American agriculture by supporting new markets and movements that will keep farmers profitable and help create middle class jobs across the country.


Tom Vilsack


#agriculture #american #class #committed #country

If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.


George Nethercutt


#committee #history #i #make #serve

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.


Quintilian


#barren #consequently #derive #devoid #more

What we must think about is an agriculture with a human face. We must give standing to the new pioneers, the homecomers bent on the most important work for the next century - a massive salvage operation to save the vulnerable but necessary pieces of nature and culture and to keep the good and artful examples before us. It is time for a new breed of artists to enter front and center, for the point of art, after all, is to connect. This is the homecomer I have in mind: the scientist, the accountant who converses with nature, a true artist devoted to the building of agriculture and culture to match the scenery presented to those first European eyes.


Wes Jackson


#artist #culture #nature #art

See,' said (Liberty Hyde) Bailey, 'how the leaves of this small plant stand forth extended to bathe themselves in the light. ... THese leaves will die. They will rot. They will disappear into the universal mold. The energy that is in them will be released to reappear, the ions to act again, perhaps in the corn on the plain, perhaps in the body of a bird. The atoms and the ions remain or resurrect; the forms change and flux. We see the forms and mourn the change. We think all is lost; yet nothing is lost. The harmony of life is never ending.' The economy of nature provides that nothing be lost.


Russell Lord


#anthropology #archaeology #gaia-hypothesis #history #change