Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush; The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is only necessary that man should start a fence that Nature should carry it on and complete it. The farmer cannot… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't know if you heard the news, but Wall Street now is a farmer's market. I don't want to say things… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The one thing our Founding Fathers could not foresee - they were farmers, professional men, businessmen giving of their time and effort… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
These weren't college kids on acid. They were preachers, and bankers, and farmers, and the salt of American society subscribing to ideas… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland,… — Alan Thein Durning Copy Share Image
We belong to the community. It is not the tailor alone who is the ninth part of a man; it is as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
In Joel's view, that reformation begins with people going o the trouble and expense of buying directly from farmers they know -… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Once the minority of House and Senate are comfortable in their minority status, they will have no problem socializing with the Republicans.… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm sure a majority of farmers do their best to follow safe practices, to read carefully chemical labels, to follow the law,… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
“If I had my way I'd move everybody up to Canada. It's nice there. Very polite. We went for a weekend last… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In Central Virginia, farmers are some of our strongest conservationists. They understand the complex ecosystems they inhabit, and they cherish the role… — Abigail Spanberger Copy Share Image
I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
I felt that I didn't want to be in show business anymore. I felt that I wanted to be a farmer. I… — Gregory Hines Copy Share Image
There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise, keeping up… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Are we going to take the hands of the federal government completely off any effort to adjust the growing of national crops,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To keep farmers on the farm we must maintain a strong farm safety net, but we will also have to build a… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
When I visited coffee farms in Ethiopia, the farmers could not believe we spend a week's wages in their country on a… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Bicycling beyond the Divide did what all great books do: it told me about me. In its tale of a journey made… — Bret Lott Copy Share Image
Nowadays I actually cook Italian-style food more than French heavy sauces. I make a good salad, some great roasted vegetables, grilled fish.… — Benjamin Millepied Copy Share Image
Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to… — Ike Skelton Copy Share Image
An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings...than a lazy lounger...too proud to work, and drawing out… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, God Bless the farmers and cowboys. It just wasn't the life I wanted. When writing stories of other… — Tom Johnson Copy Share Image
Men die, heroically or fruitlessly, but man carries on. In Israel it is the same: the farmer must till the fields, the… — Leonard Freed Copy Share Image
People should go to their local grocery store or farmers' market and buy ugly, misshapen foods, then cook with them and document… — Dana Cowin Copy Share Image
The outraged citizens of Indonesia - lawyers, doctors, engineers, scientists - should be speaking up; they should be shouting. And of course,… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
If you ask across the section of farmers in the country how many of them want their children to go into farming,… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
I think it's fascinating that I receive attention for what people perceive to be a level of manliness or machismo, when amongst… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“Most peasant farmers and herders, who constitute the great majority of the world's actual food producers, aren't necessarily better off than hunter-gatherers.… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
The majority of small-holder farmers in Africa are women and, in urban areas, you're primarily looking at women-led households. So we can't… — Ertharin Cousin Copy Share Image
There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it… — Fawn M. Brodie Copy Share Image
Cooking creates a sense of well-being for yourself and the people you love and brings beauty and meaning to everyday life. And… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
If shoppers looked at crooked carrots, misshapen potatoes, slightly dinged apples or too-small peaches and thought, wow, that looks delicious, imagine the… — Dana Cowin Copy Share Image
