Junipero Serra Quotes

Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.

Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

If the soil were as good as the harbours, it would be a blessing.

We live on a finite planet. We have finite resources, and we're running out of good, arable land.

With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes.

The country has been of better character since leaving the Buttes than E. of them, but has now a very fertile appearance. This may be said to begin about the 3rd crossing of Milk R of the line.

All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people.

The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.

The land is the finest for cultivation that I ever in my life set foot upon. Were our own industrious farmers to settle here, they would soon transform this wilderness into a Paradise where no man need ever go hungry….Never have I beheld such a rich and pleasant land.

Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of time; ... drop a grain of our blessed gold [wheat] into the ground and lo! a mystery.

With 10 per cent of Nigeria's total land mass, 80 per cent of which is arable, Niger state symbolises the hope and greatness of Nigeria and has potential to feed the continent.

I believe that agriculture land - productive agricultural land with water on site - will be valuable in the future.

All soils are not fertile.

France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.

The farmer had the right to migrate to where the rain fell.

The land is excellent and agreeable, full of noble forest trees and grapevines, and nothing is wanted here but the labor and industry to render it one of the finest and most fruitful lands …

Water is one of the world’s great business opportunities. It promises to be to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th.

Half the world’s people fail to receive the level of water services available in many of the cities of ancient Greece and Rome

She has a fertile soil, and genial climate; she has [vast] forests and abundant fisheries, unlimited water power, pastures upon which even during winter, innumerable flocks and herds can subsist, with no other care than the mere herding; and prairies which could with only moderate labor, furnish the whole of our Pacific Territories with bread.

Clean water is not an expenditure of Federal funds; clean water is an investment in the future of our country.

Civilization has been a permanent dialogue between human beings and water.

The great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies.

Afghanistan fortunately is one of the richest countries in terms of water, mineral resources, location and human capital.

Farmers can't plant much more land because almost every accessible acre of arable soil is already in use. Nor can the use of fertilizer be increased: it is already being overused everywhere except some parts of Africa, and the runoff is polluting rivers, lakes, and oceans.

My granddad had a 1,500-acre hobby farm that he had built up from scratch in Western Australia, so my siblings and I spent our childhoods going there a lot.