Since I was a boy - born into a farming family in Bonaire…

The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is…

— Wendell Berry

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

— Alice Walker

My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And…

— David Bowie

Carl Barks was born in Merrill, Oregon, in 1901, grew up in a farming family, and eventually held a number of blue-collar jobs. He…

— Michael Dirda

We grew up in a farming family, so I always ate non-processed food and fresh produce.

— Brie Bella

“You need skills to be good at homesteading. You need farming, carpentry, and above all, you need to be able to impersonate Elvis. When…

— Jarod Kintz

Sometimes we followed the crops, doing migrant labor. We did several years of tenant farming in Western Oregon starting in the early '50s. Later,…

— Katherine Dunn

I think the initial reason why I became interested in farming is that I wanted to be outdoors. I've always enjoyed being outdoors. And…

— Ian Wilmut

On a farm the best fertilizer is the master's eye.

— Pliny the Elder

“A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.”

— Amit Kalantri

“To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

I was born and raised in Pawnee City, Nebraska. I lived right next to the sale barn and I raised pigs. My dad was…

— Larry the Cable Guy

“This land pulses with life. It breathes in me; it breathes around me; it breathes in spite of me. When I walk on this…

— Brenda Sutton Rose

“I'm growing as a person. I'm self-farming. That's the highest form of farming, even greater than being a duck farmer, which, as you can…

— Jarod Kintz