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agriculture

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The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.

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Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs. Martin Heidegger

Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons? Jane Goodall

There are comparatively few significant inefficiencies in the allocation of the factors of production in traditional agriculture. Theodore Schultz

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture. Cicero

There are only two ways to reach the truth -- with literature and agriculture. Chinese Proverb

Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage. Hindi Proverb

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