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Agronomist Inspirational Quotes (200)

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Chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
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I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding pieces of abandoned land and caring for them by hand.
Masanobu Fukuoka
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Worship the spirit of criticism.
Louis Pasteur
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Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.
Norman Borlaug
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One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.
Rene Dubos
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Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.
Lester R. Brown
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The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language--the word 'enthusiasm'--en theos--a god within. The grandeur of human actions is measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a god within, and who obeys it.
Louis Pasteur
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The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it.
Louis Pasteur
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Weeds play an important part in building soil fertility and in balancing the biological community . . .
Masanobu Fukuoka
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In 1946, Oxford University in England was offered large funds to create a new Institute of Human Nutrition. The University refused the funds on the ground that the knowledge of human nutrition was essentially complete, and that the proposed institution would soon run out of meaningful research projects.
Rene Dubos
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The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.
Norman Borlaug
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There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one yet very little between a good one and none at all.
Arthur Young
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Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts at controlling body and soul.
Rene Dubos
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In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.
Louis Pasteur
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The more fodder, the more flesh the more flesh, the more manure the more manure, the more grain.
Justus von Liebig
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During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago
Norman Borlaug
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Yet, most of the readily accessible reserves of oil formed over hundreds of millions of years will be consumed within a single generation, spanning the years from 1960 to 1995.
Lester R. Brown
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Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.
Rene Dubos
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Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support systems.
Lester R. Brown
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The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a God within.
Louis Pasteur
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If an economy is to sustain progress, it must satisfy the basic principles of ecology. If it does not, it will decline and eventually collapse. There is no middle ground
Lester R. Brown
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The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.
Arthur Young
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... men as a rule are more preoccupied with the dangers that threaten their life than interested in the biological forces on which they depend for a constructive existence.
Rene Dubos
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Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
Louis Pasteur
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