Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.
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Related We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system. JOEL SALATIN We have a right to life, not on it. DANIEL MELGAçO The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD It's the imperfections that make things beautiful JENNY HAN Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO Never eat anything bigger than your ass. E. LOCKHART We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny! ABHISHEK KUMAR When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea... PHILIP T.M If 22 bushels (1,300 pounds) of rice and 22 bushels of winter grain are harvested from a quarter acr... MASANOBU FUKUOKA Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we... DEYTH BANGER We farm workers are closest to food production. We were the first to recognize the serious health ha... CESAR CHAVEZ The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever. E.LOCKHART اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن... EMILY LOCKHART You hate cake doughnuts." "Of course," says Mirren. "But we didn't get the cake, we got glazed ... E.LOCKHART There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternat... E. LOCKHEART There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel. E. LOCKHEART He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. E. LOCKHART Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark. Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain. Gat, h... E.LOCKHART Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young. E. LOCKHART It could really have a major impact if we have a couple of storms go through there and shut in produ... BRUCE BELL If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL If we're eating industrially, if we're letting large corporations, fast food chains, cook ou... MICHAEL POLLAN considering the transformative power of Agriculture, it is important that top priority is giving to ... SOTONYE ANGA We take it that if the Arrive Alive campaign was not there at all, the rate of fatalities we are exp... COLLEN MSIBI We need to have a regulatory budget in America that limits the amount of regulations on our economy.... MARCO RUBIO If we're honest, most of us are doing okay. CRAIG GROESCHEL We are still in first gear. The amount of waste we produce continues to rise and much of this still ... BEN BRADSHAW Surveys have shown that Minnesota farmers have often been over-applying N at a range of 30 to 60 pou... GYLES RANDALL Could it be possible for humanity to put their differences aside for the survival of our species, un... GARY F EVANS... 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C.S. LEWIS We are not likely to get a sudden drop in production because farmers have fixed costs that must be c... DAVID HOUGHTON We realize people need to live somewhere but we don't want to put ourselves in a position where we h... FRANK WRIGHT We'll have an acre of land where we can have a vintage market. ANN MOORE We do not choose to be born...We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of ou... JOSEPH EPSTEIN We no longer have merely domestic issues. Perhaps the best illustration of this is the question I am... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Our lives!!! We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are with something called life see... SUNDAY ADELAJA See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART We have so little to go on that you can't make an intelligent prognosis, ... If it's a really small ... ARNOLD SCHECTER We have plenty of farmers getting 50 or 60 bushels (per acre) who should be getting 70 and 80 bushel... TERRY NIBLACK We have a lot of confidence that if the interest is there, we can deliver this product. There is a h... CARL DIETRICH Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fib... ALLAN SAVORY We have much higher expectations this year. Our skill level is improved from last year, and if we st... BRIDGET EBENHACK We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agricult... ALICE WATERS We are Sinclairs. Beautiful. Privileged. Damaged. Liar. We live, least in the summertime, on a priva... E. LOCKHART Hakuna mimi katika umoja. Kuna sisi. ENOCK MAREGESI Unfortunately, the Sapiens regime on Earth has so far produced little that we can be proud of. We ha... YUVAL NOAH HARARI Our database is growing by a substantial amount on a daily basis. We cannot keep 10 or 15 years of d... LOIS HUGHES We know there is a deep reservoir of food wisdom out there, or else humans would not have survived t... MICHAEL POLLAN I said that if I were an industrialist or entrepreneur, I would invest in agriculture-based enterpri... F. SIONIL JOSE We're paying per unit today for land costs what we paid 10 years ago per acre. Land costs have gone ... JOSEPH NARKIEWICZ It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.... We have not the ... LOUIS D. BRANDEIS We were willing to cooperate for a certain amount of things. We were willing to share our knowledge.... FIONA TERRY We were lucky in the days of Led Zeppelin. Each album was different. We didn't have to continue ... JIMMY PAGE I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term-meaning that t... ANSEL ADAMS I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning tha... ANSEL ADAMS We have young bowlers. You have to produce young bowlers because 2007 is almost there. 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DANIEL KERR If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God. CRAIG GROESCHEL We need a certain amount of energy to produce the sound. But then to sustain it, we have to give mor... DANIEL BARENBOIM We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that... NATHAN WOLFE We have a unique form of biotech in Illinois and a lot revolves around agriculture, food processing ... JACK LAVIN If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and n... HIPPOCRATES Six months after we started, in 1964, there was a day when we sold only seven sandwiches. If we'... FRED DELUCA As we are getting close, I think there is a certain amount of fatigue. MARTHA COTTER If that much near-surface permafrost thaws, it could release considerable amounts of greenhouse gase... DAVID LAWRENCE I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now." "Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figur... LAUREN OLIVER To say to that you will never forget ,is always a sincere and an honest way to express ones self to ... GARY F EVANS... In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id... GARY F EVANS... When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van... SATHESH KUMAR M We need food to survive, this underscores the importance of agriculture SOTONYE ANGA We haven't argued about much. We found we have a fair amount of common ground. TOM DOAK We don't make money, in fact we lose a fair amount of money, on what we produce here in the United S... JACK BUTLER I think if we could have kept the game close, we'd have had a shot because we were having good at-ba... MIKE BIANCO Because we have 100 percent, you cant get higher than that. So out of the 58 counties that have jail... STEVE WARREN She is sugar, curiosity, and rain. E. LOCKHART What fun we had, how beautiful we were. E. LOCKHART We wish that we can stop corn import in 2007 if we could increase production in Indonesia. FADEL MUHAMMAD How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of... ERNEST HEMINGWAY We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds,... GARY L. FRANCIONE What do we have in life, really? If we're lucky we get to a certain age, and we have each other.... DAVID O. RUSSELL We have an awful lot of assumptions that these numbers hold a certain amount of magic, when they rea... ALAN YOUNG
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