Robert E. Geiger Quotes

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

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.

Texas has been hit especially hard this year by a continuing drought, threatening high winds and increasingly destructive range fires. Simply, these conditions have lead to extremely adverse conditions in the agriculture industry.

Pray for rain!

Land use is becoming more and more a general national interest and should be as much a study in the cities as in the country. For with the proper use of land, many of our greatest troubles—dust storms, floods, over-production of this and that, would at least be measurably controlled.

So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out.

It doesn't rain at all in California. Once a month, a man drives through spraying Evian.

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.

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

Soil erosion is a national menace.

This is an election year and practical politicians sense there is leverage in the agricultural states affected by the drought.

No water—no jobs.

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.

The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand.

Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.

Orissa is cursed by the two tragic extremes of drought and famine.

The levels of poverty in 1933's rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control over agriculture, was a reaction to the specific problems facing producers at that time.

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

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.

We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot - and that was in winter. I can not imagine what it's like in summer and how the people who actually live out there survive.

Our journey so far has been very satisfactory: we are most fortunate as regards the season, for there has been more rain this winter than has been known for the last four or five years.

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

It's raining on Republican farms. It's raining on Democratic farms. So our response must be quick, effective and non-partisan.

These and other developments in the field of agriculture contain the makings of a new revolution. It is not a violent Red Revolution like that of the Soviets, nor is it a White Revolution like that of the Shah of Iran. I call it the Green Revolution