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Agricultural husbandry essentially maintains the balance of bound nitrogen. -- Fritz Haber
I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina. -- Al Lewis
It Is in the Agricultural Sector That the Battle for Long- Term Economic Development Will Be Won or Lost. -- Gunnar Myrdal
Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control. -- Aldo Leopold
I think we're heading into the Creative Age. We've passed through the Agricultural and then the Industrial and then the Information Age. -- Meredith Brooks
In the Communist era, excrement took on political importance, because Party policy decided excrement was essential for the Great Agricultural Leap Forward. -- Rose George
Economic theory is the most prestigious subject of instruction and study. Agricultural economics, labor economics and marketing are lower caste fields of study. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world. -- Linus Pauling
Agricultural sustainability doesn't depend on agritechnology. To believe it does is to put the emphasis on the wrong bit of 'agriculture.' What sustainability depends on isn't agri- so much as culture. -- Raj Patel
We would be glad to have your friend come here to study, but tell him that we teach Chemistry here and not Agricultural Chemistry, nor any other special kind of chemistry. ... We teach Chemistry. -- Ira Remsen
Agricultural demand for water - probably the largest threat to freshwater species - continues to increase. ... Meanwhile, threats to terrestrial biodiversity - primarily the conversion of habitat to agricultural uses ... - have not diminished. -- Indur M. Goklany
Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution. -- Bill Drayton
Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature. -- Trofim Lysenko
There are no miracles in agricultural production. -- Norman Borlaug
The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies. -- Michael Pollan
The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. -- John Moody
I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty. -- Bill Gates
Our policies for increasing agricultural production and productivity have been scale neutral; that is, our policies are equally effective irrespective of the size of the holdings. -- Sharad Pawar
As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases. -- Mike Rogers
When Peru had a cholera outbreak in 1991, losses from tourism and agricultural revenue were three times greater than the total money spent on sanitation in the previous decade. -- Rose George
Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real. -- Pat Roberts
The agricultural revolution transformed the earth and changed the fate of humanity. It produced an entirely new mode of subsistence, which remains the foundation of the global economy to this day. -- Robyn Davidson
Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work? -- Gary Becker
In Kenya, where there isn't the luxury of feeding grains to animals, livestock yield more calories than they consume because they are fattened on grass and agricultural by-products inedible to humans. -- Tristram Stuart
Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies. -- Jeremy Rifkin
Texas' and America's farmers are suffering. As the Member of Congress representing the 10th Congressional District of Texas, I have traveled throughout our area and have seen first-hand how the drought has affected our agricultural communities. -- Michael McCaul
Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent. -- David Ricardo
I support GMOs. And we should label them. We should label them because that is the very best thing we can do for public acceptance of agricultural biotech. And we should label them because there's absolutely nothing to hide. -- Ramez Naam
The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world. -- Marjory Stoneman Douglas
The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits. -- Martin Van Buren
When I grew up in Italy in the 1950s, it was still very agricultural. Food was very important; produce was very important. Everyone made their own olive oil. It took me a long time after I moved here to understand that Americans are much further away from their food. -- Isabella Rossellini
Thanh Hoa itself is a rich agricultural province. Rice fields, a pattern of many shades of green, stretch far into the distance along the road, which also winds through foothills and the fringes of heavy jungle where tigers are said to roam. The vegetation, wild or cultivated, is lush. -- Noam Chomsky
When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it. -- Dallas Willard
Look at our farmers' markets today, bursting with heritage breeds and heirloom varieties, foods that were once abundant when we were an agricultural nation, but that we have lost touch with. Bringing all these back helps us connect to our roots, our communities and helps us feed America the proper way. -- Jose Andres Puerta
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
In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds. -- David Gerrold
Eating is an agricultural act. -- Wendell Berry
We have a strong agricultural heritage in Kansas. -- Jim Ryun
Why shouldn't I milk it? We're an agricultural institution. -- Jim Valvano
I belong to a purely agricultural family from a rural background. -- Arfa Karim
Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes. -- Evelyn Waugh
Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization. -- Howard Rheingold
Many environmental advocates argue that agricultural pollution will be reduced only through stronger federal laws. -- Charles Duhigg
What farmers gain most of all from the increase in agricultural productivity, of course, is choice. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years. -- Tom Vilsack
U.S. agricultural products, including safe, high-quality Montana beef, face unscientific trade restrictions in many important markets. -- Max Baucus
I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural. -- Thomas Jefferson
In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent's economy and its people. -- Richard Attias
In California, up to 15 percent of wells in agricultural areas exceed a federal contaminant threshold, according to studies. -- Charles Duhigg
Itâ??s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best. -- Bill Gates
Australia is a resource-rich nation. We have been good at exploiting our minerals base and agricultural sector for exports. -- Anthony Pratt
If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser. -- Ian Hacking
The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Destroying green belt agricultural land for immediate economic gain is like burning your children's inheritance to cook a single meal -- Phil Harding
California is our biggest economy. California is our biggest agricultural producer. So what happens here matters to every working American. -- Barack Obama
Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators. -- Sandra Lerner
Those of us who spent time in the agricultural sector and in the heartland, we understand how unfair the death penalty is. -- George W. Bush
much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.). -- Frances Moore LappÃ©
The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined. -- John Bruton
By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes. -- Richard Lugar
I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest. -- Joseph Hume
It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is. -- Terence McKenna
I think we live in a period of profound transformation. Very similar to when we had a transition from agricultural societies to industrial societies. -- Angela Merkel
The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured. -- Alton Brown
So it is the business community and agricultural community who I think might have the most influence on helping us make this effort more bipartisan. -- Claire McCaskill
France would be reluctant to embrace any proposal by the European Commission to slash agricultural tariffs if it threatened the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy . -- Christine Lagarde
People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That's easily overlooked. -- John Anderson
Our agricultural economy in the Hudson Valley continues to face historically low prices and producer income, as well as losses due to weather and other disasters. -- Sue Kelly
Even in the early days of America when it was largely an agrarian or agricultural, farmer-type of economy. There were still cities; there were still elites. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Even in the early days of America when it was largely an agrarian or agricultural, farmer-type of economy. There were still cities; there were still elites. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The agricultural population, says Cato, produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers, and a class of citizens the least given of all too evil designs. -- Pliny the Elder
The important thing is not to do any agriculture whatsoever, and particularly to make the modern agricultural sciences a forbidden area - they're worse than witchcraft, really. -- Bill Mollison
I am committed to strengthening our agricultural economy by protecting the unique interests of small and medium size family farms so that they can continue to operate. -- Sue Kelly
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. -- Julius Streicher
It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines. -- Mikhail Kalashnikov
A level of no more than 350 ppm is still feasible, with the help of reforestation and improved agricultural practices, but just barely - time is running out. -- James Hansen
I want to get a big, lifted truck with mudflaps on the back. Where I'm from, it's an agricultural area, so that's just how I've been raised. -- Virgil Green
If you're in any field, you should own a farm because one day you will be grateful that you are able to grow your own agricultural produce. -- Marc Faber
I am interested in agricultural corporations and how they function. The idea that they own the genetics of our food supply is a really compelling thing to me. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
As maize became important for human food worldwide, modern agricultural research on maize breeding continued the corn breeding begun thousands of years ago in the Central American highlands. -- Elizabeth Blackburn
Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent. -- Charles E. Wilson
Yesterday Gary Condit spent the whole day attending an agricultural meeting. Boy, that's when you know a congressman's in real trouble: when he spends the whole day actually working. -- Jay Leno
In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from adequate. So we must be good at learning. -- Mao Zedong
Worldwide, enormous areas of peatland are still being lost to agricultural development, drainage schemes, overgrazing, and exploitation-based infrastructure development projects such as roads, electricity pylons, telephone masts and gas pipelines. -- John Burnside
The sugar industry doesn't want to see more of the agricultural areas turned into storm-water treatment areas. Ultimately they want to develop that land for houses and a shopping center. -- Charles Lee
Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which is a major manufacturing and a major agricultural district. -- Jerry Weller
The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture. -- Bill Mollison
If what we already know were simply applied to all the agricultural land of the world and the problem of proper distribution were given consideration, the world could feed itself well. -- Louis Bromfield
Our agricultural colleges continue to graduate specialists who become vocational agricultural teachers in the schools, and county agents, who go forth to extol the virtues of poison insecticides, herbicides, and commercial fertilizers. -- Joe Nichols
All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
By geo-historical standards, today's atmospheric CO2 levels are remarkably - indeed dangerously - low. We need CO2 in the air to support plant growth and agricultural yields, and more would be better. -- Roger Helmer
At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural crops in the context of climate change and other challenges. -- Cary Fowler
My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class. -- David Bowie
Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used. -- Wendell Berry
I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing. -- Theodore Bikel
I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood. -- Daryl Hall
There's nothing like castrating 20 pigs before lunch. I did that during school whenever the need arose. They'd call out the agricultural class and put us in trucks to go help the local farmers. -- Fred Ward
Egypt does not possess rich natural resources. Its agricultural area is relatively small - less than 10 per cent of the total land. Its growth relies on tourism, Suez Canal tariffs, and foreign investment. -- Ahmed Zewail
An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful services, and also has value to society in terms of aesthetics and recreation -- Tim Benton
The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat. That is why we must do more to open Cuba - not less. -- Max Baucus
If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services. -- Dan Barber
In Japan, the average age of agricultural workers is 65.8. When the aging of its population is accelerating so rapidly, it will be very difficult to sustain the sector whether we liberalize trade or not. -- Naoto Kan
Men who expect universal peace through invention of destructive weapons of war are no wiser than one who, noting the improvement of agricultural implements, should prophesy an end to the tilling of the soil. -- Ambrose Bierce
Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Countries that are agricultural can, at a low standard of living, sustain themselves. You can be self-sufficient; the money economy is a relatively insignificant part of the total economy. Singapore never was an agricultural country. -- Lee Kuan Yew
Even before the agricultural revolution began in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago, humans had learned how to work with new technology. Those who could not or would not eventually became priests, politicians, and bureaucrats. -- G. Harry Stine

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