Quotes about Agriculture

It is about moving from ideas about merely being sustainable to ones that include regenerating areas devastated by agriculture, mining, and other destructive activities. It is about revolution. The transition from a death economy to a life economy is truly about a change in consciousness — a consciousness revolution.

We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.

Oh thrice and four times happy... those who plant cabbages.

We need the patience of the planter. We need the foresight of the farmer. We need the mindset of the sower.

Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted; for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

Later she gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.

Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and raise livestock.

Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.

After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted, thin and scorched by the east wind.

And the thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven plump, ripe ones. Then Pharaoh awoke and realized it was a dream.

After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted—withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind.