“ Since I was a boy - born into a farming family in Bonaire, GA - I've had agriculture running through my veins. Sonny Perdue
“ The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and even necessary, that we should g… Wendell Berry
“ It is impossible to have a healthy and sound society without a proper respect for the soil. Peter Maurin
“ To a very great extent, it's the fast-food industry that really industrialized our agriculture - that drove the system to one variety of chicken grown very quickly in confinement, to the feedlot syste… Michael Pollan
“ 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… Martin Heidegger
“ Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives. Dan Barber
“ More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense. Marc Andreessen
“ It is appropriate to speak of the artisans as possessed of wisdom (and not just "skill"), because the biblical writers share the understanding common to most traditional societies that the active form… Ellen F. Davis
“ ...no matter how rhapsodic one waxes about the process of wresting edible plants and tamed animals from the sprawling vagaries of nature, there's a timeless, unwavering truth espoused by those who wor… James McWilliams
“ Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food. Jeremy Grantham
“ Only a very foolish person would think that specialized knowledge is important in everything apart from agriculture and farming Sunday Adelaja
“ 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
“ 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
“ By erecting thirty thousand dams of significant size across the American West, they dewatered countless rivers, wiped out millions of acres of riparian habitat, shut off many thousands of river miles… Marc Reisner
“ Life cannot be without food; when we destroy the lands that give food, we destroy the foods that give life! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“ Commercial agriculture can survive within pluralistic American society, as we know it - if the farm is rebuilt on some of the values with which it is popularly associated: conservation, independence,… Marty Strange
“ I have been a long-term environmental advocate for the agriculture industry. I have particularly tried to push carbon farming or carbon sequestration. Sam Brownback
