Magnus Larsson Quotes

Africa is the most weathered continent in the world; 75 percent of its soil has been degraded. You don't just bring that back. I always like to say it's like putting an oxygen mask on a cadaver; it just isn't going to work.

Each year some 1,400 square miles of land in Northern China turns into desert …. Civilization can survive the loss of its oil reserves, but it cannot survive the loss of its soil reserves.

The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.

Soil erosion is a national menace.

With wrong farming methods, we turn fertile land into desert. Unless we go back to organic farming and save the soil, there is no future.

To see rich land eaten away by erosion, to stand by as continual cultivation on sloping fields wears away the best soil, is enough to make a good farmer sick at heart.

Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude implement of tillage in the hands or prehistoric man. It has been going on ever since, wherever man's culture of the earth has bared the soil to rain and wind.

There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

Water efficiency, recycling, and other local supplies will help California flourish in a drier future.

Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation.

Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies.

One of the great things about Lanai is that the weather is always fabulous. Always 82 degrees and sunny. The problem is that, like California now, Lanai needs more water.

I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it.

In many places where coffee is grown, deforestation is a major issue.

I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do.

How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.

Three little words achingly familiar on a Western farmer's tongue, rule life in the dust bowl of the continent - if it rains.

The plains are almost wholly uninhabitable by people depending upon agriculture.

If a man farms his land to the waste of the soil or the tress, he destroys not only his own assets but Nature's assets.

We have to stop treating soil like dirt.

Loss of soil productivity, which is causing extensive land abandonment, is a widespread by-product of current practices in agriculture and animal husbandry. Since 1945, 11 percent of the earth's vegetated surface has been degraded—an area larger than India and China combined—and per capita food production in many parts of the world is decreasing.

If we didn't have a sustainable agriculture industry, who would be paying the then-missing taxes to support our defence, police, roads, airports, elderly, parks, public sporting facilities and much more?

The way we produce food is killing the land and water.

I hope people will learn more about agriculture in America. About locally grown farming and about water conservation. About how much pollution results from beef and pig farming.