agriculture

We farm workers are closest to food production. We were the first to recognize the serious health hazards of agriculture pesticides to both consumers and ourselves.

Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.

Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.

Since I was a boy - born into a farming family in Bonaire, GA - I've had agriculture running through my veins.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

Blessed be agriculture! If one does not have too much of it.

When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.

Praise a large domain cultivate a small estate.

Earth is here so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.

There was no denying the fact that the death of sugarcane was sounding the knell for something else in the country. What can we call it?

I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out solely in reaction to the over development of the present age.

Their hands are tied not by ropes but by the greed of the intermediaries that the system has generated, who eat up the farmer__ income while it is on its way into his hands.

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

Why should we plant, when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?

Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization.

If [the loss of fertility of the soil and the loss of soil as a renewable resource] does happen, we are familiar enough with the nature of American salesmanship to know that it will be done in the name of the starving millions, in the name of liberty, justice, democracy, and brotherhood, and to free the world from communism. We must, I think, be prepared to see, and to stand by, the truth: that the land should not be destroyed for any reason, not even for any apparently good reason. We must be prepared to say that enough food, year after year, is possible only for a limited number of peaople, and that this possibility can be preserved only by the steadfast, knowledgeable care of those people.