251 Quotes About Agriculture

I always worried because whenever a drought struck, an accursed storm of blood always followed.

That one American farmer can now feed himself and fifty-six other people may be, within the narrow view of the specialist, a triumph of technology; by no stretch of reason can it be considered a triumph of agriculture or of culture. It has been made possible by the substitution of energy for knowledge, of methodology for care, of technology for morality.

If the devil has a pitchfork and the grim reaper has a scythe, agriculture must be a huge industry in the underworld.

For food, we initially relied on nature; then ourselves; and now other people.

Green meant water, green patches meant farmers and farmers meant agriculture. Agriculture meant food to eat and food to sell, which meant towns and transport. They had reached civilization.

The Agricultural Revolution was history's biggest fraud. Who was responsible? Neither kings, nor priests, nor merchants. The culprits were a handful or plant species, including wheat, rice and potatoes. These plants domesticated Homo Sapiens, rather than vice versa.

We have a vast land, we must cultivate enough crops to feed the people of this nation.

In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and hope. And Odysseus finds him in an act emblematic of the best and most responsible kind of agriculture: an old man caring for a young tree. (pg. 123, The Body and the Earth)

In some places of the world, Water is more precious than oil... so turning sand into soil makes sense.