The prophet is always at the mercy of events; nevertheless, I venture to conclude this book with the forecast that at least half the illnesses of mankind will disappear once our food supplies are raised from fertile soil and consumed in a fresh condition.

— Albert Howard

The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.

— Frances Moore Lappé

There seem to be but 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, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

— Benjamin Franklin

There was no denying the fact that the death of sugarcane was sounding the knell for something else in the country. What can we call it?

— Maryse Condé

The sap is nourished from the root.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

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

— Masanobu Fukuoka

This is considered almost holy work by farmers and ranchers. Kill off everything you can't eat. Kill off anything that eats what you eat. Kill off anything that doesn't feed what you eat."" It IS holy work, in Taker culture. The more competitors you destroy, the more humans you can bring into the world, and that makes it just about the holiest work there is. Once you exempt yourself from the law of limited competition, everything in the world except your food and the food of your food becomes an enemy to be exterminated.

— Daniel Quinn

To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth.

— Amit Kalantri

Today, if you pay a[n US] dollar for a pound of apples in the supermarket only about six cents covers the formwork used to get it there; (...)

— Tracie McMillan

Until there is a reversal of the sense of values which cares more for size and appearance than for quality, there will be no solving the problem of food pollution.

— Masanobu Fukuoka