Arable Quotes

#1. The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, andagain, the lakes and smooth water where he can rest his weary arms, since those are the most interesting and more arable parts to him.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the Ilokanos and the Cebuanos.

F. Sionil Jose

#3. There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.

Josiah Strong

#4. African agriculture today is among, or is, the most under-capitalized in the world. Only seven percent of arable land in Africa is irrigated, compared to 40 percent in Asia.

Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin

#5. "What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle
it's just a web."
"Ever try to spin one?" asked Mr. Dorian.

E.B. White

#6. We live on a finite planet. We have finite resources, and we're running out of good, arable land.

Jeremy Grantham

#7. China is able to feed 23 percent of the world's population from 7 percent of the arable land - "by crowding some 2,000 human beings onto each square mile of cultivated earth in the valleys and flood plains," as Fairbank points out.

Robert D. Kaplan

#8. Viewed from a holistic ecological perspective, some meat - such as conscientiously hunted animals - involves less suffering and environmental damage than arable agriculture, while both of these are significantly less harmful than indiscriminately purchasing meat on the market.

Tristram Stuart

#9. If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion acres) would support about 10 billion people,

E. O. Wilson

#10. We have been getting rich by depleting all our natural stocks - water, hydrocarbons, forests, rivers, fish and arable land - and not by generating renewable flows.

Joseph J. Romm

#11. Certainly, it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to iron ore and arable land. The most constricting scarcities are those of character and personality.

William R. Allen

#12. "We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."

Abraham Cowley

#13. The fact that China has about seven percent arable land, means that she's always going to be looking for places that have more arable lands to finance or to provide food stuffs.

Dambisa Moyo

#14. If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no water, no arable land, no fish, you have nothing. Money is a 'nothing' thing.

Jacque Fresco

#15. In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land.

Mo Ibrahim

#16. My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

Lorna Luft

#17. Give government the weapons to fight your enemy and it will use them against you.

Harry Browne

#18. Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#19. My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.

Edward Abbey

#20. We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice.

Thomas S. Monson

#21. And in this beautiful, heartbreaking world, God - the eternal, omniscient, amazing One - loves human beings. Including you. Especially you. You are amazing.

Stasi Eldredge

#22. History, history! We fools, what do we know or care.

William Carlos Williams

#23. Fatherhood is asking your son to make up a name rather than tell anybody who he is.

Bill Cosby

#24. The explosion would be just the right size to maximize the amount of paperwork your lab would face. If the explosion were smaller, you could potentially cover it up. If it were larger, there would be no one left in the city to submit paperwork to.

Randall Munroe

#25. Make decisions from the strong part of you, not the weak.

Laura Schlessinger

#26. When I was a teen, I was never really into the captain of the football team or the student body president. The guys I liked were quirky and different: They listened to music I'd never heard of, never had lunch or gas money, and could always make you laugh.

Sarah Dessen