Quotes by Agriculture He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man. Henry Ward Beecher agriculture names men Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain. Horace oxen agriculture father Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude implement of tillage in the hands or prehistoric man. It has been going on ever since, wherever man's culture of the earth has bared the soil to rain and wind. Hugh Hammond Bennett agriculture rain men If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser. Ian Hacking agriculture bombs people It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation. Irene Rosenfeld agriculture environmental mean Agriculture and intercultural dialogue: our common heritage. Jacques Diouf agriculture heritage common Very few people can communicate with one another. The only language that's not subject to interpretation is mathematics, chemistry, basic science, engineering principles, and applied agriculture. But other than that, many systems today are subject to interpretation. Jacque Fresco engineering agriculture people The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture. Jacob Bronowski agriculture village men Politics was good a hundred years ago. Today, politicians have no ability to solve any problems because they are not students of behavior. They are not students of agriculture, oceanography - they know nothing about the factors that operate the world. Jacque Fresco agriculture world years The only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease. Jacques Chirac mad-cow-disease agriculture done You can't participate in agriculture or redesign of aircraft for making them safer if you know nothing about it. So, whenever a person says 'will I be participating in the new world?' Only in areas that you can participate it. Areas that you have competence in. I'm not talking about self confidence, I'm talking about the ability to solve problems. Electrical, chemical, technical. I don't know of any other kind of problem. Jacque Fresco agriculture self-confidence talking Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment. Jamais Cascio agriculture water thinking Finally I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career to devote my life to the study of peasants and agriculture. James C. Scott agriculture population careers When wildlife damages agriculture we eliminate the wildlife. Rather we should eliminate agriculture when it damages wildlife. James Cook wildlife agriculture damage I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas. James Earl Jones agriculture kids thinking The economy of the 21st century will come to center on agriculture. Life will be intensely and profoundly local in ways that we can't conceive of today. Economic growth, as we have known it in a cheap energy industrial paradigm, will cease. James Howard Kunstler agriculture growth way I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners. James MacArthur colorado skis agriculture America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts. James Madison agriculture america art Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art. Henry David Thoreau agriculture luxury art 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 Madison agriculture government giving «345678910111213»