Elias Hasket Derby famous quotes

A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection.
-- Elias Hasket Derby

#Agriculture #Perfection #Doe

When harvests are exuberant, joy and health follow in their train; but let delusive prosperity draw industry from agriculture; let an insiduous disease attack one of its important products; let an insect, or a parasite, fasten on a single esculent, and mark the effect upon commerce and human life. Upon such an event all business is deranged.
-- Elias Hasket Derby

#Agriculture #Joy #Important

Agriculture has become essential to life; the forest, the lake, and the ocean cannot sustain the increasing family of man; population declines with a declining cultivation, and nations have ceased to be with the extinction of their agriculture.
-- Elias Hasket Derby

#Ocean #Men #Lakes

Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

Food should be cheap, and labor should be cheap, and everything should be the same no matter where you go; whether it's a McDonald's in Germany or one in California, it should be the same. And this message is destroying cultures around the world. Needless to say, agriculture goes with it.

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.

Almost all the knowledge required to produce more food than eroding soil is available today - we just need to use that knowledge within a holistic paradigm - managing agriculture holistically, forming the policies that undergird it holistically.

Ati sarvatra varjayet: Excess of anything is bad. Some of us are attracted to Good. But the universe tries to maintain balance. So what is good for some may end up being bad for others... Agriculture is good for us humans as it gives us an assured supply of food, but it is bad for the animals that lose their forest and grazing land.

There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.