Top 1200 Organic Agriculture Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

Agriculture has deep roots both in my life and in Arkansas' history.

A garden is the place millions of people go to touch the earth, to smell flowers - to use some of that fabled human brain power in the cause of better participating with natural processes in the place they call home. It serves as an art project, an organic produce market, a spiritual practice, a pharmacy. It offers ongoing lessons in ecology, biology, chemistry, geology, meteorology. Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time. It bestows on its practitioners a genuine sense of admiration for the plants, the soil, the sun, the water.

Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food.

Each moment life is new and you have to respond from your inner newness, you have to be available to the new as the new. And you have to respond, not out of your knowledge, but out of your present awareness. Only then life works, otherwise life stops working. If your life is not working, remember, it is the ego that is hindering, the mechanical has encroached upon the organic. To be free from the mechanical is to be in God, because it is to be in the organic unity of existence.

You know, the technology was at the right place for us to build this world. The most difficult thing about doing The Croods was no doubt the building of the world. Every single thing in this film is organic. Organic things are tough. Very very labour intensive. And we have no man-made structures. You could argue that everything in this film is really an exterior. Even the interiors of the cave are exteriors. So building this world was the biggest thing of all, and the technology was there to do it.

It is, I believe, justifiable to make the generalization that anything an organic chemist can synthesize can be made without him. All he does is increase the probability that given reactions will 'go.' So it is quite reasonable to assume that given sufficient time and proper conditions, nucleotides, amino acids, proteins, and nucleic acids will arise by reactions that, though less probable, are as inevitable as those by which the organic chemist fulfills his predictions. So why not self-duplicating virus-like systems capable of further evolution?

That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.

There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song.

The current food crisis is an opportunity for companies to engage in agriculture or biotechnology.

We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve the whole of life, holding no traditions essential to the great TRADITION. Nor cherishing any preconceived form fixing upon us either past, present or future, but-instead-exalting the simple laws of common sense-or of super-sense if you prefer-determining form by way of the nature of materials.

Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.

We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.

...think of agriculture as something the grasses did to people to conquer the trees.

If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.

Agriculture drives most people crazy. It keeps me sane.

The lifeblood of Mercy For Animals is our undercover investigations of animal agriculture.

The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.

I wish for recycling to become a major industrial agriculture.

It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.

Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.

The USMCA is a good deal for American agriculture.

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

We're the biggest food and agriculture company in the world.

To be economical agriculture must be ecological.

The fundamental for the sustainable growth of Nigeria is not in the hydro-carbon industry but in agriculture.

I was the first woman elected as secretary of agriculture in Iowa.

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

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

Agriculture and intercultural dialogue: our common heritage.

A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection.

Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.

What's the logic of investing millions in agriculture if it will not pay off?

I always assumed the Department of Agriculture was the farmer and rancher's friend.

The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.

Once you get the government involved in agriculture you'll have nothing but problems and expenses.

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

There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song

When I was agriculture minister, we drafted specific policies to tackle the agrarian crisis.

If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right.

Agriculture needs to be modernized so as to give work to youth, women and men from the country.

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

I'm proud to serve on the Senate Agriculture Committee.

Most things, except agriculture, can wait

I believe agriculture is the key to change for this country.

In agriculture, whatever you plan and execute takes 2-3 years to have an impact.

The lack of roads in Africa greatly hinders agriculture, education, and development.

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

Agriculture is the process of turning eco-systems into people.

On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

If we don't get sustainability right in agriculture first, it won't happen anywhere.

Penn State has also continued to be a leader in Pennsylvania's largest industry: Agriculture.

Everything else can wait, agriculture can’t.

A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people.

I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar.

You can't do everything. You can't do health and forestry and agriculture. You've got to focus and do one or the other.

We need to make sure the Department of Agriculture is promoting farmers and ranchers.