Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roy Rogers

I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.

Ronald Coase

I can't remember [of a good regulation]. Regulation of transport, regulation of agriculture — agriculture is a, zoning is z. You know, you go from a to z, they are all bad. There were so many studies, and the result was quite universal: The effects were bad

Ramez Naam

Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics.

Norman Borlaug

Everything else can wait, agriculture can’t.

Jim Hightower

Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues

Will Rogers

Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it.

Zach Wamp

Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us.

Wendell Berry

It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'

Wendell Berry

A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land.

Larry Holmes

I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.

Friedrich List

The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

Kate Millett

In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property.

Joseph Hume

I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.

Julius Streicher

Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people, and the American continent received many people whose contributions are particularly clear in the agricultural and technical fields.

Ovid

A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.

Ovid

Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly.

Mao Zedong

Socialist revolution aims at liberating the productive forces. The changeover from individual to socialist, collective ownership in agriculture and handicrafts and from capitalist to socialist ownership in private industry and commerce is bound to bring about a tremendous liberation of the productive forces. Thus, the social conditions are being created for a tremendous expansion of industrial and agricultural production.

Mao Zedong

The serious problem is the education of the peasantry. The peasant economy is scattered, and the socialization of agriculture, judging by the Soviet Union's experience, will require a long time and painstaking work. Without socialization of agriculture, there can be no complete, consolidated socialism.

James Madison

Those who proposed the Constitution knew, and those who ratified the Constitution also knew that this is...a limited government tied down to specified powers....It was never supposed or suspected that the old Congress could give away the money of the states to encourage agriculture or for any other purpose they pleased.

James MacArthur

I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.

John Entwistle

We have nine hungry Rottweilers on the farm.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.

Edward Taylor

There's an unexpectedly high share of workers still in agriculture, .. That's like a fault line.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

Globalization, which attempts to amalgamate every local, regional, and national economy into a single world system, requires homogenizing locally adapted forms of agriculture, replacing them with an industrial system-centrally managed, pesticide-intensive, one-crop production for export-designed to deliver a narrow range of transportable foods to the world market.

Charles Sturt

Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England.

Alan Autry

High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage.

Charles Walters

To be economical agriculture must be ecological.