#agriculture

Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#boy #day #fortune #got #large

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#agriculture #because #been #ensure #eve

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

#ancient #arts #crete #discovery #europe

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

#balanced #biological #climate #cycles #diversity

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

As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#democracy #direction #eases #education #final

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

— Alfred Nobel

#agriculture #biggest #humbug #industry #our

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

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