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Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.

~Allan Savory

Topics: Agriculture Any Army Banks Belief Church City Civilization Crop Economy Fiber Food Foundation Holds Land Market Popular Possible Production Stable Stock Stock Market University Waters Without World

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Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.

~Allan Savory

Topics: Agriculture Coal Destructive Industries Industry Mining More Most Other Than

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Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.

~Allan Savory

Topics: Any Community Derived Economy Green Growing Nation Only Plants Process Soil Sustain Ultimately Wealth

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If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who start to get new ideas out.

~Allan Savory

Topics: Artists Deep Dig Freelance Get Ideas Keep Leaders New New Ideas Onion Out People Society Start Who Writers You

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The problem with holistic management is it's so profoundly simple, but it's not easy. And it's profoundly simple. You're almost insulting people's intelligence to explain it twice, just about making better decisions of where you want to go in your life, bringing in environmental, social, economic issues simultaneously.

~Allan Savory

Topics: About Almost Better Bringing Decisions Easy Economic Environmental Explain Go Holistic Insulting Intelligence Issues Just Life Making Management People Problem Profoundly Simple Simultaneously Social The Problem With Twice Want Where You Your

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People and land need healing which is all inclusive - holistic.

~Allan Savory

Topics: Healing Holistic Inclusive Land Need People Which

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Hard systems are everything we're using right now - computers, phones, planes, the clothes you're wearing, the room you're in. Everything there involves 100% use of technology and expertise to make it, and nothing we make - including space exploration vehicles and so on - is complex. Everything we make is complicated. Nothing is self-renewing.

~Allan Savory

Topics: Clothes Complex Complicated Computers Everything Expertise Exploration Hard Including Involves Make Nothing Now Phones Planes Right Room Space Space Exploration Systems Technology Use Using Vehicles Wearing You

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We need to manage holistically, embracing all of our science and traditional knowledge - all sources of knowledge. We can do that from the household to government to international relations.

~Allan Savory

Topics: Embracing Government Household International International Relations Knowledge Manage Need Our Relations Science Sources Traditional

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I spent a lot of my life - 20 years of it - in war, training army trackers and commanding a tracker unit, and then in the Game Department, tracking lions and elephants and poachers. So I've spent literally thousands of hours tracking people or animals, and training others to do it.

~Allan Savory

Topics: Animals Army Commanding Department Elephants Game Hours Life Lions Literally Lot My Life Others People Spent Then Thousands Tracking Training Unit War Years

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A good tracker is interpreting all the time, from every little sign, you know? Not just interpreting the age of the tracks but also: Is it wounded? Is it hungry? A good tracker is interpreting a lot.

~Allan Savory

Topics: Age Also Every Good Hungry Interpreting Just Know Little Lot Sign Time Tracks Wounded You

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Biography

Nationality: Zimbabwean

Type: Scientist

Born: September 15th, 1935

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