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With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
Bertrand RussellPeople are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.
Bill GatesTwo out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.
Bill GatesTrue 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. ChestertonIf African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.
Bill GatesI have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.
Bill GatesIf you’re using first-class land for biofuels, then you’re competing with the growing of food. And so you’re actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.
Bill GatesHaitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can’t compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan’s free market enthusiasms.
Noam ChomskyOver time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don’t approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.
Bill GatesThe Green Revolution focused on the big three – maize, rice and wheat – and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.
Bill GatesThere are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.
Bill GatesWhat is a farm but a mute gospel?
Ralph Waldo EmersonSowing is not as difficult as reaping.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMy early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.
Richard BransonThanh Hoa itself is a rich agricultural province. Rice fields, a pattern of many shades of green, stretch far into the distance along the road, which also winds through foothills and the fringes of heavy jungle where tigers are said to roam. The vegetation, wild or cultivated, is lush.
Noam ChomskyIt is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
B. C. ForbesMiddle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil.
Bill GatesThe farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.
Will RogersFarming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.
Dwight D. EisenhowerWhen the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn’t speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.
Fidel CastroEven after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaNo race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. WashingtonAgriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
Samuel JohnsonAmerica 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 MadisonIt may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Margaret ThatcherWe do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
Golda MeirThe nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
Franklin D. RooseveltUpon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.
Herbert HooverThere cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man’s making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.
Benjamin FranklinIllinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
Abraham Lincoln