151 Quotes About Acres

  • Author Keith Martin
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    The ones who are in favor of the nomination live near the 50 acres of forest we want to preserve. The majority of people who are opposed to it say they think this type of mid-rise condos is out of keeping with the rest of the development in the area.

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  • Author Ralph Merkle
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    Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.

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  • Author Ralph Merkle
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    It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.

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  • Author Sharon Moore
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    We're very hopeful this is the bear. It's basically the same size bear. There's truly not that many bears in the 5,000 acres we have closed off.

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  • Author Wayne McCants
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    The biggest thing for me is preserving the habitat. An estimated 2,500 acres a day (nationwide) is lost to malls and subdivision. We are trying to preserve some place for the wild animals to call home.

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  • Author Ramez Naam
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    If you want to feed the planet and keep the forests we have, you need to be able to grow roughly twice as much food per acre around the world. How do you do that? New technology.

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  • Author John Oates
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    I live in the middle of the mountains in Aspen Colorado, I have the tractor on my ranch. Right out my door is thousands of acres of national forest.

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  • Author Benjamin Percy
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    I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground.

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