Welcome to our collection of insightful and inspiring agriculture quotes! Agriculture, the foundation of civilization, is not merely about cultivating crops and raising livestock; it embodies the essence of human sustenance and harmony with nature. Throughout history, agricultural practices have shaped societies, economies, and cultures, offering profound lessons on resilience, innovation, and stewardship of the land.
From ancient wisdom to modern-day perspectives, the words of farmers, scientists, writers, and leaders resonate with the timeless truths and challenges inherent in agriculture. These quotes encapsulate the beauty of working the land, the resilience of rural communities, and the imperative of sustainable practices in feeding a growing population. Whether you’re a seasoned farmer, an aspiring gardener, or simply curious about the world of agriculture, these quotes offer wisdom, motivation, and food for thought.
Scroll down to discover a treasure trove of agriculture quotes that you can use to inspire, educate, or simply appreciate. Feel free to copy them, pair them with captivating images, or adorn them with stylish fonts to share the timeless wisdom of agriculture with others. Let’s celebrate the profound significance of agriculture and the enduring legacy it holds for humanity.
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
The use of drones to improve public safety, agriculture and other uses will only increase. Cindy Hyde-Smith
Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information. James Howard Kunstler
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
A program to make municipal composting of food and yard waste mandatory and then distributing the compost free to area farmers would shrink America’s garbage heap, cut the need for irrigation and fossil-fuel fertilizers in agriculture, and improve the nutritional quality of the American diet. Michael Pollan
Industrial agriculture, because it depends on standardization, has bombarded us with the message that all pork is pork, all chicken is chicken, eggs eggs, even though we all know that can’t really be true. Joel Salatin
Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not – we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household. Luke Bryan
Large-scale deforestation can be prevented while increasing food production through better, smarter agriculture. Paul Polman
I hope people will learn more about agriculture in America. About locally grown farming and about water conservation. About how much pollution results from beef and pig farming. Alec Baldwin
I support a robust economy where agriculture and businesses are able to compete in a fair and open global market. Ryan Zinke
I was the first woman elected as secretary of agriculture in Iowa. Patty Judge
Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature. Craig Venter
Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real. Pat Roberts
I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce. Joseph Hume
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
If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right. M. S. Swaminathan
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture. Quintilian
By increasing the use of renewable fuels such as ethanol and bio-diesel, and providing the Department of Energy with a budget to create more energy efficiency options, agriculture can be the backbone of our energy supply as well. John Salazar
Viewed from a holistic ecological perspective, some meat – such as conscientiously hunted animals – involves less suffering and environmental damage than arable agriculture, while both of these are significantly less harmful than indiscriminately purchasing meat on the market. Tristram Stuart
The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social experiment on a whole generation of children. Ruth Reichl
Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement. Pat Roberts
Agriculture is the backbone of the livelihood security system of nearly 700 million people in the country and we need to build our food security on the foundation of home grown food. M. S. Swaminathan
Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production. Ralph Merkle
To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit. Sam Farr
As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation’s agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases. Mike Rogers
We’re the biggest food and agriculture company in the world. Dwayne Andreas
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology. Edward Thorndike
To Mahatma Gandhi, the key to India’s progress was the development of its villages. In his unified vision, education, agriculture, village industry, social reform all came together to provide the basis for a vibrant rural society free from exploitation and linked to the urban centres as equals. Our planning incorporates this basic insight. Rajiv Gandhi
There’s almost no food that isn’t genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to a lot of radiation, which causes DNA damage, which gets repaired, but results in mutations, which create a ready mixture of plants that people can choose from to improve agriculture. Nina Fedoroff
Now listen, the one thing about agriculture is we’ve lost our manufacturing, we’ve lost a great deal of jobs overseas, lots of our industry. The last thing in the world we need to do is lose the ability to produce our food. John Boozman
When 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 Castro
The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock. Michael Specter
If the YSRCP is voted to power, agriculture sector will be given top priority. The interests of all sections of people will be protected. Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy
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
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
Each of us has about 40 chances to accomplish our goals in life. I learned this first through agriculture, because all farmers can expect to have about 40 growing seasons, giving them just 40 chances to improve on every harvest. Howard Graham Buffett
We eat every day, and if we do it in a way that doesn’t recognize value, it’s contributing to the destruction of our culture and of agriculture. But if it’s done with a focus and care, it can be a wonderful thing. It changes the quality of your life. Alice Waters
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
When I ran for secretary of agriculture in Iowa in 1996, people… were sure that Iowans would not consider electing a woman to that position. Patty Judge
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
In Silicon Valley, there are a lot of startups using computer vision for agriculture or shopping – there are a lot for clothes shopping. At Baidu, for example, if you find a picture of a movie star, we actually use facial recognition to identify that movie star and then tell you things like their age and hobbies. Andrew Ng
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
One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen. Antoine Lavoisier
Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality. Arthur Keith
I always thought of Djibouti as a place where human history hasn’t really begun yet – or perhaps it’s already over. There’s something in the landscape that’s stronger than human civilisation. There’s no agriculture, for example, and there are live volcanoes. Claire Denis
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
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
I believe that agriculture land – productive agricultural land with water on site – will be valuable in the future. Michael Burry
Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production. David Ricardo
AI will impact every industry on Earth, including manufacturing, agriculture, health care, and more. Fei-Fei Li
Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds – it’s the production of food and fiber from the world’s land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy. Allan Savory
Agriculture needs to be modernized so as to give work to youth, women and men from the country. Jovenel Moise
Agriculture involves crop husbandry, animal husbandry, forestry and fisheries. Your income will go up only if you look at the system, and not from one crop alone. M. S. Swaminathan
It is difficult to think of a major industry that AI will not transform. This includes healthcare, education, transportation, retail, communications, and agriculture. There are surprisingly clear paths for AI to make a big difference in all of these industries. Andrew Ng
Agriculture looks different today – our farmers are using GPS and you can monitor your irrigation systems over the Internet. Debbie Stabenow
In Texas, agriculture production is critical for our economy and food supply. Ronny Jackson
We farm workers are closest to food production. We were the first to recognize the serious health hazards of agriculture pesticides to both consumers and ourselves. Cesar Chavez
I want to highlight that Italy, every year, sends 6 billion euros in cash to Brussels. I cannot give these 6 billion euros to Brussels and then let them damage us on the fronts of agriculture, migration, fishing, commerce and finance. Why am I giving 6 billion to receive nothing in return? Matteo Salvini
Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants. P. J. O’Rourke
It is clear that agriculture as we know it has experienced major changes within the life expectancy of most of us, and these changes have caused a major further deterioration of worldwide levels of nutrition. Richard Lamm
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age. Alfred Nobel
Bring diversity back to agriculture. That’s what made it work in the first place. David R. Brower
Agriculture is one of the biggest causes of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Cars? Planes? Trains? Nope. Cow farts. Zazie Beetz
The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life. Arthur Keith
I started a private equity fund and we invest in energy, mining, agriculture kind of things in Africa. Erik Prince
Because Iran understands Afghanistan far better than Americans do, making Iran a partner in a long-term effort to transform Afghan agriculture makes sense. Stephen Kinzer
If we moved from industrialized agriculture to re-localized organic agriculture, we could sequester about one quarter of the carbon moving into the air and destroying our glaciers, oceans, forests and lands. Winona LaDuke
By developing deep learning solutions that are faster, easier, and less expensive to use, Nervana is democratizing deep learning and fueling advances in medical diagnostics, image and speech recognition, genomics, agriculture, finance, and eventually across all industries. Steve Jurvetson
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
When the Nobel Peace Prize Committee designated me the recipient of the 1970 award for my contribution to the ‘green revolution,’ they were in effect, I believe, selecting an individual to symbolize the vital role of agriculture and food production in a world that is hungry, both for bread and for peace. Norman Borlaug
Immigrants are critical to our strength in every essential industry, from agriculture and education to health care, domestic work, construction, food processing, technology, and many more. Alex Padilla
Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation. Joel Salatin
Beaumont-Hamel sits within a thousand acres of French agriculture. The trenches are under this blanket of grass. In the 1920s, a park was established here and trees from Newfoundland imported to encircle the battlefield so you get the feeling of being within a copse of woods. Michael Winter
I would say my fraternity was nothing but a bunch of farm boys; we weren’t really in the whole fraternity scene, but yeah, that’s a safe assessment of who I am. I’ve lived that life, growing up in agriculture and then going off to college and joining a fraternity, livin’ that life. Luke Bryan
Agriculture changes the landscape more than anything else we do. It alters the composition of species. We don’t realize it when we sit down to eat, but that is our most profound engagement with the rest of nature. Michael Pollan
Looking ahead, the bright spot in Indian agriculture is the availability of a large untapped production reservoir. M. S. Swaminathan
The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion. Friedrich List
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
Penn State has also continued to be a leader in Pennsylvania’s largest industry: Agriculture. Tim Holden
My mother was a housewife. My father worked in the agriculture business, but they were very encouraging about everything. When I said I wanted to do art, they were very supportive. Giles Deacon
When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state. Xun Kuang
Before agriculture was invented, land was not a resource. Before oil drilling and nuclear fission were invented, petroleum and uranium were not resources. Robert Zubrin
As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation. Edmund Phelps
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
On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture. Mike Johanns
Gluten intolerance and celiac disease are direct results of American agriculture policy and, specifically, the government’s wading into the food arena. Joel Salatin
We’re making this analogy that AI is the new electricity. Electricity transformed industries: agriculture, transportation, communication, manufacturing. Andrew Ng
As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community. Rick Larsen
Every major food company now has an organic division. There’s more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before. Michael Pollan
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
Most farmers know that their children’s future will probably not be in agriculture, but they have a hard time imagining a different life. Abhijit Banerjee
To sum up, agriculture has made important progress and our farmers have now shown that they are second to none in terms of improving production and productivity. M. S. Swaminathan
Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us. Zach Wamp
I realised the animal agriculture industry is actually awful and tragic and I can’t bear to be a part of that. The environmental impact of the agriculture industry, the health impact on us, there’s all the reasons. Montaigne
‘Cost-saver’ in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean ‘moral shortcut.’ Matthew Scully
Land is becoming a diminishing resource for agriculture, in spite of a growing understanding that the future of food security will depend upon the sustainable management of land resources as well as the conservation of prime farmland for agriculture. M. S. Swaminathan
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
I always assumed the Department of Agriculture was the farmer and rancher’s friend. Jerry Moran
Agriculture can trigger job-led economic growth, provided it becomes intellectually satisfying and economically rewarding. M. S. Swaminathan
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
