It is therefore absurd to approach the subject of health piecemeal with a departmentalized band of specialists. A medical doctor uninterested in… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
In the old days of America when communities were separated by hundreds of miles, why were they able to thrive? Because if… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Barry Crump wrote a lot of books and they were really special. They were kind of the quintessential, mild for the most… — Rhys Darby Copy Share Image
My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well,… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither… — Sitting Bull 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
A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty. — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
As one of the nation's top agricultural states, Nebraska has a great opportunity to provide input that will help shape the 2007… — Dave Heineman Copy Share Image
To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
There's a billboard in a little farm town in the Midwest that says: IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT FARMERS, DON'T TALK WITH YOUR… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
Factory farmers talk about their desire to feed the world. That's not what they're doing. They're feeding the world with really, really… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a… — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
If we want to keep farmers in business, it's time for all of us, ordinary citizens and policy makers alike, to begin… — Joan Dye Gussow Copy Share Image
We were taught to be dependable, responsible, the top of our classes at school, the most organized and efficient babysitters in town,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Many people think that when we practice agriculture, nature is helping us in our efforts to grow food. This is an exclusively… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition,… — John Thorne Copy Share Image
Illinois corn farmers are the Nation's number two exporter of feed grains. — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
“The God-fearing, churchgoing farmers are all gone. Now they all have TVs on their roofs and orgies in their barns. The flux,… — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
At the time I was writing 'Weedflower,' my friend Naomi Hirahara was writing a book about Japanese-American flower farmers. She knew quite… — Cynthia Kadohata Copy Share Image
