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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.

Agriculture is now a motorised 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, philosopher (1889-1976), lecture, 1949

is suggestive of culture whereas the city is suggestive of civilization. In the city are gathered, rightly or wrongly, the wealth and brains produced in the countryside. Civilization begins in the peasant's hut, but it comes to flower only in the towns.

Culture suggests agriculture, but civilization suggests the city. In one aspect civilization is the habit of civility... and civility is the refinement which townsmen, who made the word, thought possible only in the civitas or city. For in the city are gathered, rightly or wrongly, the wealth and brains produced in the countryside... in the city invention and industry multiply comforts, luxuries and leisure... in the city traders meet, and barter goods and ideas... in that cross-fertilization of minds at the crossroads of trade intelligence is sharpened and stimulated to creative power. In the city some men are set aside from the making ol material things, and produce science and philosophy, literature and art. Civilization begins in the peasant's hut, but it comes to flower only in the towns. The Story of Civilization DURANT, Will (1885-1975)

is something like farming; only farming is doing it.

Agriculture is something like farming; only farming is doing it.

is the noblest of all alchemy; for it turns earth, and even manure, into gold, conferring upon its cultivator the additional reward of health.

Agriculture is the noblest of all alchemy; for it turns earth, and even manure, into gold, conferring upon its cultivator the additional reward of health.

is not crop production, as popular belief holds. It’s the production of food and fiber from the world’s land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.

Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds—it’s the production of food and fiber from the world’s land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.

is the most healthful, most useful and most noble employment of man. I had rather be on my own farm, than be emperor of the world.

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful and most noble employment of man. I had rather be on my own farm, than be emperor of the world.

is the divine chemistry that works in the subsoil..

The divine chemistry works in the subsoil. Hawthorne.

is, when measured by its usefulness, undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

If we estimate dignity by immediate useful ness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

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