With the advent of farming, human horizons expanded.

The best farming systems are ones where animals and plants are put into a synergistic relationship.

— Michael Pollan

Farming is the riskiest profession in the world since the fate of the crop is closely linked to the behaviour of the monsoon.

— M. S. Swaminathan

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

— Skeet Ulrich

The measure discriminates definitely against products which make up what has been universally considered a program of safe farming. The bill upholds as ideals…

— Calvin Coolidge

Its the sort of thing in your blood. You don't think about the long hours or the money, you do it because you love…

— Anonymous

Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by farmers. The…

— Jared Diamond

An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent industrial agricultural…

— Vandana Shiva

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

— Peter Singer

Five generations of back ache, wrinkles and empty penny jars.. why do we do it?! Dur its farming, simply loving life and what we…

— Laura Claxton

“For we must farm or die. In undertaking farming we undertake a responsibility covering the whole life cycle. We can break it or keep…

— LORD NORTHBOURNE

“In Spain, hilly terrain and antiquated planting and harvest practices keep farmers from retrieving more than about 100 pounds [of almonds] per acre. Growers…

— Hannah Nordhaus

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering…

— Benjamin Franklin

Many organic practices simply make sense, regardless of what overall agricultural system is used. Far from being a quaint throwback to an earlier time,…

— David Suzuki

The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting the art…

— Tristram Stuart

Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily,…

— Wendell Berry