X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Agronomist Inspirational Quotes (200)

Page 4 of 9
Filter & Style
Image
Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation...o f human beings!
Masanobu Fukuoka
Image
The challenge is either to build an economy that is sustainable or to stay with our unsustainable economy until it declines. It is not a goal that can be compromised. One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come.
Lester R. Brown
Image
I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out solely in reaction to the over development of the present age.
Masanobu Fukuoka
Image
The more I know, the more nearly is my faith that of the Breton peasant. Could I but know all I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman.
Louis Pasteur
Image
I'm under no illusion that the future will be a neat and tidy or desirable world. We will gain a lot of things through necessity and a lot of them through all sorts of fragile dysfunction - not because they're bad ideas but because they will inevitably be adopted in a chaotic, reactive way.
David Holmgren
Image
Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. I pray while I am engaged at my work in the laboratory.
Louis Pasteur
Image
A manure containing several ingredients acts in this wise: The effect of all of them in the soil accommodates itself to that one among them which, in comparison to the wants of the plant, is present in the smallest quantity.
Justus von Liebig
Image
Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.
Norman Borlaug
Image
If you do not try to make food delicious, you will find that nature has made it so.
Masanobu Fukuoka
Image
No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs, without parents similar to themselves. Those who affirm it have been duped by illusions, by ill-conducted experiments, spoilt by errors that they either did not perceive or did not know how to avoid.
Louis Pasteur
Image
A fact acquires its true and full value only through the idea which is developed from it.
Justus von Liebig
Image
Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Arthur Young
Image
Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.
Rene Dubos
Image
La fortuna juega a favor de una mente preparada
Louis Pasteur
Image
If it is impossible to judge merit and guilt in the field of natural science, then it is not possible in any field, and historical research becomes an idle, empty activity.
Justus von Liebig
Image
My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur
Image
Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.
Arthur Young
Image
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature.
Louis Pasteur
Image
Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.
Richard Levins
Image
Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.
Louis Pasteur
Image
It is not the project but the living process that will be the measure of our actions.
David Holmgren
Image
Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.
Louis Pasteur
Image
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
Arthur Young
Image
To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I also know that the greatest danger to their perpetuity is the pressure of human population.
Norman Borlaug
Previous
Next