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The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea. -- Nikolai Gogol
Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness. -- Thomas Jefferson
As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community. -- Rick Larsen
I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy. -- John Salazar
On this National Agriculture Day, when we all should be taking time to thank and pay tribute to America's farmers, ranchers and their families who produce the food for our tables, we are finding those same people in dire need of our help and support. -- Michael McCaul
On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture. -- Mike Johanns
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. -- Milton Friedman
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 is the new golf -- Ed McMahon
Agriculture and intercultural dialogue: our common heritage. -- Jacques Diouf
We have a strong agricultural heritage in Kansas. -- Jim Ryun
A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people. -- Wendell Berry
Agriculture is the process of turning eco-systems into people. -- Toby Hemenway
Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind. -- Joseph Joubert
Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage -- Indian Proverb
Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation. -- Thomas Jefferson
Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man -- George Washington
I always assumed the Department of Agriculture was the farmer and rancher's friend. -- Jerry Moran
Penn State has also continued to be a leader in Pennsylvania's largest industry: Agriculture. -- Tim Holden
We need to make sure the Department of Agriculture is promoting farmers and ranchers. -- Jerry Moran
If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee. -- George Nethercutt
Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Agriculture specialists say our farm production is increasing and will go on increasing. Thank God. -- Vladimir Putin
I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar. -- Kate DiCamillo
Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us. -- Zack Wamp
Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us. -- Zack Wamp
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own -- Samuel Johnson
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own. -- Samuel Johnson
Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries. -- Allan Savory
When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state. -- Xun Zi
Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life. -- Jim Costa
Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before. -- Michael Pollan
Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics. -- Ramez Naam
I am saying that the recent activities by Turkey's Ministry of Agriculture, particularly the culling and communication work, is good. -- Bill Vaughan
Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature. -- Craig Venter
Agriculture looks different today - our farmers are using GPS and you can monitor your irrigation systems over the Internet. -- Debbie Stabenow
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history. -- Carl Sagan
By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes. -- Richard Lugar
Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise. -- Thomas Jefferson
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology. -- Edward Thorndike
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture. -- Quintilian
Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality. -- Arthur Keith
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. -- Alan Autry
In addition to achieving outside the industry, agriculture, national defense science and technology modernization, we are faced with the important task of system modernization. -- Zheng Bijian
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
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. -- Friedrich List
The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member of Congress. -- Fiorello H. La Guardia
Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
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
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 obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops. -- David F. Houston
The Department of Homeland Security is a strategic feel good measure. It's going to be the Department of Agriculture for the 21st century. TSA - thousands standing around. -- Thomas P.M. Barnett
Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production. -- David Ricardo
At President Obama's direction, the U.S Department of Agriculture is working hard to unleash the power of America's innovators and entrepreneurs to build a green energy economy. -- Tom Vilsack
Agriculture is in danger. The whole world is in danger. We need to learn to adapt. If we don't, we'll face catastrophic consequence on a scale you cannot imagine. -- Cary Fowler
The Department of Agriculture announced that it will ban six new strains of E. coli. Which explains why the hot dog vendor outside my building is now just selling napkins. -- Jimmy Fallon
There is not a better day in the world to be spent than with a lot of wise old cowmen around barbecued beef, black coffee and good free holy beans. -- Will Rogers
One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen. -- Antoine Lavoisier
What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other. -- Will Rogers
The seven things that make up the rainbow of India's development are India's strong and deep rooted family system, Agriculture-Animal development, India's Matru Shakti (women power), Natural Resources (Jal, Jameen, Jungle), Youth power, Vibrant Democracy and Knowledge. -- Narendra Modi
Agriculture has become essential to life; the forest, the lake, and the ocean cannot sustain the increasing family of man; population declines with a declining cultivation, and nations have ceased to be with the extinction of their agriculture. -- Elias Hasket Derby
But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism. -- 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. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer. -- Bernard Baruch
We have a series of regular meetings with South African business. Big business. Black business. Agriculture. As well, of course, with the trade unions. A whole series of meetings like that which engage issues that these South African social partners need to address. -- Thabo Mbeki
Between 6 and 8 percent of pigs die before they are trucked from the factory farm to slaughter. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, about 123 million pigs were slaughtered in 2006. That means 7 to 10 million died on their own before we could kill them. -- Steven M. Wise
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. -- Martin Heidegger
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age -- Alfred Bernhard Nobel
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age. -- Alfred Nobel
The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life. -- Arthur Keith
To me, the most critical thing in agriculture is investing in the peasant agriculture, transforming peasant agriculture. -- Jakaya Kikwete
I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land. -- Pawan Kalyan
In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making. -- Carol P. Christ
Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies. -- Michael McCaul
If the U.S. became the undisputed superpower that it is today, it was primarily because of its technology, whether it is in transportation, agriculture, high-tech industry, medicine, etc. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine -- Bertrand Russell
Each of us has about 40 chances to accomplish our goals in life. I learned this first through agriculture, because all farmers can expect to have about 40 growing seasons, giving them just 40 chances to improve on every harvest. -- Howard Graham Buffett
Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to it's liberty and interests by the most lasting bands -- Thomas Jefferson
The production of natural resources in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, stable natural hydrological cycles, fertile soils, a balanced climate and numerous other vital ecosystem services can only be permanently secured through the protection and sustainable use of biological diversity. -- Sigmar Gabriel
All the companies I've worked for have this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunting and gathering cultures of 100,000 years ago. If businesses could find a way to invent 'agriculture,' we could put the world back together and all would prosper. -- Alan Kay
Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy. -- Allan Savory
I would say my fraternity was nothing but a bunch of farm boys; we weren't really in the whole fraternity scene, but yeah, that's a safe assessment of who I am. I've lived that life, growing up in agriculture and then going off to college and joining a fraternity, livin' that life. -- Luke Bryan
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
There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to a lot of radiation, which causes DNA damage, which gets repaired, but results in mutations, which create a ready mixture of plants that people can choose from to improve agriculture. -- Nina Fedoroff
Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time. -- Howard Rheingold
What I am saying every day to Malawians is that time has come for us to move from aid to trade. We have picked several sectors that we think we can focus on immediately in order for us to grow our economy. So we have decided to diversify agriculture, we decided to develop our tourism sector, we have decided to develop our mining sector. -- Joyce Banda
Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not - we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household. -- Luke Bryan
Most things, except agriculture, can wait -- Jawaharlal Nehru
Everything else can wait, agriculture can't. -- Norman Borlaug
To be economical agriculture must be ecological. -- Charles Walters
If you eat, you are involved in agriculture. -- Wendell Berry
Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I wish for recycling to become a major industrial agriculture. -- Tishuan Scott
Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information. -- James Howard Kunstler
A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection. -- Elias Hasket Derby
We're the biggest food and agriculture company in the world. -- Dwayne Andreas
Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. -- Robert Kennedy
Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food -- Albert Allen Bartlett
The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws. -- Bill Dedman
Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it. -- Charles Dudley Warner
A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land. -- Wendell Berry
The lifeblood of Mercy For Animals is our undercover investigations of animal agriculture. -- Nathan Runkle
If we don't get sustainability right in agriculture first, it won't happen anywhere. -- Wes Jackson
My niche will be to support the environment through the growth of organic agriculture. -- Nell Newman
...think of agriculture as something the grasses did to people to conquer the trees. -- Michael Pollan
Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place. -- David R. Brower
Increasingly both environmentalists and animal ethicists recognize the enormous destruction caused by animal agriculture. -- Dale Jamieson
'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.' -- Matthew Scully
If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science. -- Samuel Johnson
Once you get the government involved in agriculture you'll have nothing but problems and expenses. -- Ron Paul
Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. -- Elbert Hubbard
There's an unexpectedly high share of workers still in agriculture, .. That's like a fault line. -- Edward Taylor
To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit. -- Sam Farr
The only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease. -- Jacques Chirac
Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation. -- Joel Salatin
Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues -- Jim Hightower
The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture. -- Jacob Bronowski
When wildlife damages agriculture we eliminate the wildlife. Rather we should eliminate agriculture when it damages wildlife. -- James Cook
Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture. -- Tony Benn

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