agriculture
According to analyses conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 100 grams of fresh tomato today has 30 percent less vitamin C, 30 percent less thiamine, 19 percent less niacin, and 62 percent less calcium than it did in the 1960s. But the modern tomato does shame its counterpart in one area: It contains fourteen times as much sodium.
— Barry Estabrook
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
— Carl Sagan
A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.
— Amit Kalantri
A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.
— Ovid
Agriculture must mediate between nature and the human community, with ties and obligations in both directions. To farm well requires an elaborate courtesy toward all creatures, animate and inanimate. It is sympathy that most appropriately enlarges the context of human work. Contexts become wrong by being too small - too small, that is, to contain the scientist or the farmer or the farm family or the local ecosystem or the local community - and this is crucial.
— Wendell Berry
As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a sustainable culture, community becomes the locus and metaphor for both agriculture and culture.
— Wes Jackson
Awake! Arise! The hour is late! Angels are knocking at thy door! They are in haste and cannot wait, And once departed come no more. Awake! Arise! The athlete's arm Loses its strength by too much rest;The fallow land, the untilled farm Produces only weeds at best.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Blessed be agriculture! If one does not have too much of it.
— Charles Dudley
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 of salmon habitat, silted over spawning beds, poisoned return flows with agricultural chemicals, set the plague of livestock loose on the arid land--in a nutshell they made it close to impossible for numerous native species to survive.
— Marc Reisner
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, self-reliance, family, and community. To sustain itself, commercial agriculture will have to reorganize its social and economic structure as well as its technological base and production methods in a way that reinforces these values.
— Marty Strange
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