The world has enough for everyone's need but not enough for everyone's greed.  

    Mahatma Gandhi

 

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention. 

    Kevin Kelly

 

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. 

    Franklin D. Roosevelt 

 

It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing left for themselves.

    César Chávez

 

Food should be treated with respect since our Lord left Himself to us in the guise of food.

    Dorothy Day

 

From the moment you put a piece of bread in your mouth you are part of the world. Who grew the wheat? Who made the bread? Where did it come from? You are in relationship with all who brought it to the table. We are least separate and most in common when we eat and drink.

    Thomas Merton

 

Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.

    Wendell Berry

 

The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.  Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens, the most vigorous, the most independent and most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds.

    Thomas Jefferson