Elias Hasket Derby quotes
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“A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.”
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“Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.”
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Source : "Could cows and sheep halt climate change and tackle rural poverty?" by Judith D Schwartz, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2013.
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“I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.”
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“You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.”