Quotes About Growing Crops

#1. The worst thing that happened to air travel in the past ten years was the bankruptcy of Xhibit Corp., the parent company of SkyMall. I recalled with clarity the first time I boarded a flight and it was missing from all usual nooks and crannies. It had been a dark day.

L. H. Cosway

#2. A new song begins, and in the dark, we listen, letting lyrics about love and suffering and hope fall over us.

Autumn Doughton

#3. Between 2008 and 2010, at least 261 patents were filed related to growing "climate-ready" crops - seeds supposedly able to withstand extreme weather conditions; of these patents close to 80 percent were controlled by six agribusiness giants, including Monsanto and Syngenta.

Naomi Klein

#4. . . . crop restrictions not only raise the price of corn and other crops but also tend to raise farmers' total revenues and earnings." Increase your corn profit by not growing corn? Here's a wonderful kind of business where everybody can get rich if they'll just do nothing.

P. J. O'Rourke

#5. The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.

David Foster Wallace

#6. If there is no black and white, there is yet lighter and darker, and not all grays are the same.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#7. Class is a stronger social adhesive than nationality.

Elly Griffiths

#8. Don't think a woman can fully understand the power a man feels when he takes." (Witt Long)

Jasmine Haynes

#9. Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth.

Robert A. Heinlein

#10. From the time I was a small boy, I remember working in the fields with my grandfather and father. We weren't growing grapes, but we were farming crops, creating something good out of the earth.

Scott Pruett

#11. Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation ... o f human beings!

Masanobu Fukuoka

#12. Nobody adores fertilizer. Nobody devotes their life to fertilizer (unless they own a fertilizer company). But, shit, you need it to grow the crops. The land is arid and dry without it, and trying to grow things is likely to be futile.

Shellen Lubin

#13. You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future

Edward De Bono

#14. If today's arts love the machine, technology and organization, if they aspire to precision and reject anything vague and dreamy, this implies an instinctive repudiation of chaos and a longing to find the form appropriate to our times.

Oskar Schlemmer

#15. Are you telling me in your own gentle way to stop whining?"
"Yes."
"I don't feel like a hero. I feel like an idiot."
"I think heroes generally do, but those men believe in you."
"I did wait until I was outside before I threw up.

Megan Whalen Turner

#16. Simon was nettled. "How do you know I'm not one of them? Or you? A Shadowhunter or a Downworlder, or - " She shook her head until her braids bounced. "It just shines out of you," she said, a little bitterly, "your humanity.

Cassandra Clare

#17. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#18. I never really hated one true god
But the god of all the people I hated

Marilyn Manson

#19. You can't be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS.

Paul Wolfowitz