{"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Wes Jackson","tags":["agriculture","community","culture"],"id":202,"author_id":"Wes+Jackson"},{"text":"The prophet is always at the mercy of events; nevertheless, I venture to conclude this book with the forecast that at least half the illnesses of mankindwill disappear once our food supplies are raised from fertile soil and consumed in a fresh condition.","author":"Albert Howard","tags":["agriculture","health"],"id":3923,"author_id":"Albert+Howard"},{"text":"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.","author":"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow","tags":["agriculture","athlete","athletes","carpe-diem","fallow","farm","farming","haste","inspirational","motivational","opportunity","opportunity-knocks","seize-the-day","weeds"],"id":5761,"author_id":"Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow"},{"text":"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.","author":"Martin Heidegger","tags":["agriculture","now","same "],"id":6455,"author_id":"Martin+Heidegger"},{"text":"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 thiamin, 19 percent less niacin, and 62 percent less calcium than it did in the 1960s. But the modern tomato does shame it's counterpart in one area: It contains fourteen times as much sodium.","author":"Barry Estabrook","tags":["agriculture","factory-farming","food","science","tomatoes"],"id":13248,"author_id":"Barry+Estabrook"},{"text":"A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["adage","advertisement","agricultural-revolution","agriculturalist","agriculture","agro","alliterations","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","blog","blogging","book-writing","catch-lines","catchphrases","characters","creative-writing","crops","essay","farm","farm-animals","farm-land","farmer","farmers","farming","green","hard-work","in-the-sun","indian-farmer","inspirational","irrigation","kisan","knowledge","magic","magician","money","motivational","movie","movie-dialogue","mud","novel-writing","philosophy","proverbs","public-speaking","punchline","quotes","rain","rhetoric","sayings","script","script-writing","scriptwriting","shetkari","slogans","social-networking","sow","speech","speechwriting","story","tag-lines","trees","wisdom","wit","witty","writing"],"id":29066,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"The most exemplary nature is that of the topsoil. It is very Christ-like in its passivity and beneficence, and in the penetrating energy that issues out of its peaceableness. It increases by experience, by the passage of seasons over it, growth rising out of it and returning to it, not by ambition or aggressiveness. It is enriched by all things that die and enter into it. It keeps the past, not as history or as memory, but as richness, new possibility. Its fertility is always building up out of death into promise. Death is the bridge or the tunnel by which its past enters its future.","author":"Wendell Berry","tags":["agriculture","christ","soil"],"id":47922,"author_id":"Wendell+Berry"},{"text":"Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.","author":"Edward Thorndike","tags":["education","art","agriculture "],"id":65672,"author_id":"Edward+Thorndike"},{"text":"The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.","author":"Frances Moore Lappé","tags":["agriculture","hunger","poverty"],"id":75250,"author_id":"Frances+Moore+Lapp%C3%A9"},{"text":"Today, if you pay a[n US] dollar for a pound of apples in the supermarketm only about six cents covers the farmwork used to get it there; (...).","author":"Tracie McMillan","tags":["agriculture","food","systemic-devaluation-of-labour"],"id":75445,"author_id":"Tracie+McMillan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":85,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}