“The nation that destroys its soil, destroys itself.”

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“… the intersection of geography with history draws attention to agriculture as the connective tissue between nature and culture, and thus to its potential for investigating questions of culture, technology and the environment."

— Judith Carney, The African Origins of Carolina Rice Culture

“Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals.”

— Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

“Its where fun meets awesome... meets agriculture.”

- Leslie Knope

“We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.”

- Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”

— William Faulkner, Requium for a Nun

“The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet. ”

- JFK

“Laws change, people die, the land remains.”

- Abraham Lincoln

“In terms of conventional physics, the grouse represents only a millionth of either the mass or the energy of an acre. Yet subtract the grouse and the whole thing is dead.”

-Aldo Leopold

"It is through food that humanity's most intimate and essential connections to the earth and to other creatures are expressed and consummated."

-Kloppenburg 1996: 37