I present some profound quotes I came across, one of which is “Eating is an agricultural act”. My favourite, I would say.
They are basically agricultural quote that points to the new direction of agriculture which has the potential to change our society by ensuring good foods production whiles correcting the deterioration of our environment as a result of many human’s inhumane activities.
We must all get involved.
QUOTE 1
“Eating is an agricultural act.”
― Wendell Berry, What Are People for Essays By Wendell B
QUOTE 2
“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.”
― Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
QUOTE 3
“All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
QUOTE 4
“To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry also of the land, of the soil, of the domestic plants and animals – obviously because of the importance of these things to the household. And there have been times, one of which is now, when some people have tried to practice a proper human husbandry of the non-domestic creatures in recognition of the dependence of our households and domestic life upon the wild world. Husbandry is the name of all practices that sustain life by connecting us conservingly to our places and our world; it is the art of keeping tied all the strands in the living network that sustains us.
And so it appears that most and perhaps all of industrial agriculture’s manifest failures are the result of an attempt to make the land produce without husbandry.”
― Wendell Berry, Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
Agriculture is an art and conservation is the keyword.
