#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 #arts #encouraged #had

After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#agriculture #consumed #economic #finding #first

There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#animal #dairy #disaster #diseases #eat

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#call #gives #her #nation #only

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

— Arthur Keith

#big #civilized #discovery #first #life

Both the human immune system and the plant immune system are fundamentally interdependent on the quality and fertility of the soil. Our immune system, and even our physical structure, are a reflection of the foods we have eaten from either toxic and nutrient depleted soils, or wonderfully fertile soils. ↗

— Eryn Paige

#nutrition #sea-agriculture #sea-salt-fertilization #soil #wellness

Today, if you pay a[n US] dollar for a pound of apples in the supermarketm only about six cents covers the farmwork used to get it there; (...) ↗

— Tracie McMillan

#food #systemic-devaluation-of-labour #food

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

#companies #complement #development #focus #heritage

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

— Jim Costa

#agriculture #essential #finite #human #human life

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

#am #committee #community #congress #first