The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings. — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again. — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone. — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation...o f human beings! — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
“A robust regional food system that benefits eaters and farmers cannot be achieved in a marketplace that is controlled, top to bottom,… — Wenonah Hauter Copy Share Image
Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
Farming teaches you that nothing is handed out. If you take a day off, you have to work twice as hard the… — Jordy Nelson Copy Share Image
“Studying wine taught me that there was a very big difference between soil and dirt: dirt is to soul what zombies are… — Olivier Magny Copy Share Image
The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Smart people don't work with their hands. If you have a brain, being outside and performing physical labor are the things you… — Brent Preston Copy Share Image
The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
And above all, above all, honest work must be rewarded by a fair and just tax system. The tax system today does… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Both my best and worst memories are of my time in Nicaragua. The experience as a whole was totally redeeming and amazing.… — Eden Sher Copy Share Image
Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God… — Don Young Copy Share Image
Albania in 1994 was the strangest place I've ever seen. It was like walking into the looking glass: falling apart, paranoid people,… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
Farming is the riskiest profession in the world since the fate of the crop is closely linked to the behaviour of the… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
My government will make efforts to realize the farming potential of rain-fed and dry land areas by ensuring healthy participation by all… — Pratibha Patil Copy Share Image
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one. — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape… — Fay Godwin Copy Share Image
To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming… — Margot Robbie Copy Share Image
“Farmers had freed themselves in part from the blind natural forces of storm and insects only to become increasingly the victims of… — Grant McConnell Copy Share Image
The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Factory farming isn't just killing: It is negation, a complete denial of the animal as a living being with his or her… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Even if you live in New York City, you can have a little basil plant in your window, and that could be… — Novella Carpenter Copy Share Image
For all-around, everyday, all-season wear, farmers can't be beat. They are inclined to chafe under the burden of leisure (a minor vexation… — Patricia Penton Leimbach Copy Share Image
One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons… — Emiliano Zapata Copy Share Image
“There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Far from being a “luxury for the rich,” organic farming may turn out to be a necessity not just for the poor,… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long… — William McKinley Copy Share Image
There are 6.6 billion people on the planet today. With organic farming we could only feed four billion of them. Which two… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
“A swift rhythm is played out by my hands, a cadence known only to those who have strung tobacco. To many, the… — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
