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Quotations regarding 'Agriculture'

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We're the biggest food and agriculture company in the world.
Dwayne Andreas, American Businessman (1918-  )
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, American Actor (1952-  )
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.
Christopher Bond, American Politician (1939-  )
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, American Scientist (1914-  )
Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.
Norman Borlaug, American Scientist (1914-  )
We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.
John Bright, British Politician (1811-1889)
Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.
David R. Brower, American Environmentalist (1912-2000)
We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.
Gordon Brown, British Politician (1951-  )
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer (1874-1936)
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, Educator
So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out.
Steven Chu, American Scientist (1948-  )
The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.
Barry Commoner, American Scientist (1917-  )
Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.
Jim Costa, American Politician (1952-  )
More than 15 percent of the jobs in Ohio are tied in some way to agriculture. A strong agriculture means a strong economy.
John Fisher, English Clergyman
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, American Economist (1912-2006)
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, Russian Writer (1809-1852)
In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
Garrett Hardin, American Environmentalist (1915-2003)
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, German Philosopher (1889-1976)
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, American Activist (1943-  )
Penn State has also continued to be a leader in Pennsylvania's largest industry: Agriculture.
Tim Holden, American Politician (1957-  )
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