“These memories are part of my heritage, the fabric of my personality, and as real to me as the land itself.” — Karen Jones Gowen Copy Share Image
“Men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all. — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain. — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
You know what would help this boy?" Demeter mused. "Farming." Persephone rolled her eyes. "Mother-" "Six months behind a plow. Excellent character… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Generally I'm very supportive of farmers. I think the wider Australian population is also. The animal justice fund is focusing on factory-farmed… — Jan Cameron Copy Share Image
I grew up off the grid in Vernon, and I saw my parents work hard every day, as teachers but also while… — Ryan Holmes Copy Share Image
My priority going forward is to be able to be involved in things like the farm and fighting hunger events, and then… — Chris Soules Copy Share Image
I grew up believing that the willingness and ability to work is the basic ingredient of successful farming. Hard, intelligent work is… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west,… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
The first thing that comes up about farming is the hard work. That connection we had as a family, being around each… — Jordy Nelson Copy Share Image
A paradigm shift, where, in addition to, physical inputs for farming, a focused emphasis placed on knowledge inputs, can be a promising… — Pratibha Patil Copy Share Image
I'm very familiar with the importance of dairy farming in Wisconsin. I've spent the night on a dairy farm here in Wisconsin.… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Organic farming appealed to me because it involved searching for and discovering nature's pathways, as opposed to the formulaic approach of chemical… — Eliot Coleman Copy Share Image
The biggest thing right now, is supporting the people who take care of the environment. We must take care of the people… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
I don't know Hillary's Clinton stance on urban farming. I don't know Donald Trump's stance or Bernie Sanders's for that matter. But… — Novella Carpenter Copy Share Image
If we are bold in our thinking, courageous in accepting new ideas, and willing to work with instead of against our land,… — Hugh Hammond Bennett Copy Share Image
... to me it appears strange that the men against whom I should be enabled to bring an action for laying a… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
One of the most important discoveries I made in those early years was that to succeed at natural farming, you have to… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
You go to towns in Massachusetts, Greenfield, first settled in 1686. Wouldn’t it be cool if it said, “Greenfield. First settled c.… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“In Spain, hilly terrain and antiquated planting and harvest practices keep farmers from retrieving more than about 100 pounds [of almonds] per… — Hannah Nordhaus Copy Share Image
[My father] did get enough money to buy mules. We didn't have tractors, but he bought mules, wagons, cultivators and some farming… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
The dance is the most universal of the arts, since, as Goethe justly said, it could destroy all the fine arts. It… — Gerard van der Leeuw Copy Share Image
The idea of hunting and gathering as the best way for life has become quite popular recently, much more populare in some… — Walter Truett Anderson Copy Share Image
The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“The same teen who can't legally operate a four-wheeler, or [ATV]...in a farm lane workplace environment can operate a jacked-up F-250 pickup… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half. — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“We got a saying around here about our corn, ‘it grows knee-high by the Fourth of July.” — Richard Puz Copy Share Image
![“In Spain, hilly terrain and antiquated planting and harvest practices keep farmers from retrieving more than about 100 pounds [of almonds] per acre. Growers in the Central Valley, by contrast can expect up to 3000 pounds an acre. But for all their sophisticated strategies to increase yield and…” quote by Hannah Nordhaus](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e26/hannah-nordhaus-71212_agriculture_in-spain-hilly-terrain-and-antiquated-pl_318187.jpg)
![“[My father] did get enough money to buy mules. We didn't have tractors, but he bought mules, wagons, cultivators and some farming equipment. As soon as he bought that and decided to rent some land, because it was always better if you rent the land, but as soon as he got the mules and wagons and…” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8dc/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_cows_my-father-did-get-enough-money-to-buy-mu_2573697.png)
![“[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work begun by those neolithic farmers in the Near East has been carried forward from one generation to the next without a single break, right into the…” quote by Daniel Quinn](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/007/daniel-quinn-1786_break_y-our-agricultural-revolution-is-not-an_1828089.jpg)
![“The same teen who can't legally operate a four-wheeler, or [ATV]...in a farm lane workplace environment can operate a jacked-up F-250 pickup on a crowded urban expressway. By denying these [farm work] opportunities to bring value to their own lives and the community around them, we've relegated…” quote by Joel Salatin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a83/joel-salatin-3103_farming_the-same-teen-who-can-t-legally-operate_608941.png)
