“It wasn’t as if I’d grewn up in Los Angeles - I’d seen plenty of farms in my day. But never had… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured… — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
We need to realize that these industrial methods of farming have gotten us used to cheap food. The corollary of cheap food… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
We are not just a farming area, Africa has great potential and we are a developing continent. — Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters Copy Share Image
You can be entrepreneurial even if you don’t want to be in business. You can be a social entrepreneur focused on the… — Steve Case 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
If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again. — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
At Appassionata we produced relatively small amounts of our very own, premier-class, deliciously peppery olive oil. Olive farming wasn't my trade, but… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Factory farming is terrible for the environment—not to mention that it's gross. The best thing you can do, if you think about… — Christofer Drew Copy Share Image
I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“A farmer, as one of his farmer correspondents once wrote to Liberty Hyde Bailey, is "a dispenser of the 'Mysteries of God.'"… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“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
In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it. — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“Why Brownlee left, and where he went, Is a mystery even now. For if a man should have been content It was… — Paul Muldoon 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
“...responsible, stylish, adventuresome, sometimes silly, comfortable, and difficult subsistence. That's what milking the cow's all about!” — Lynn Miller Copy Share Image
Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but… — Garrison Keillor 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
...there's no such thing as sustainability. There are just levels of it. It's a process, not a real goal. All you can… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery,… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“At 6:15 she was standing on her front porch watering gardenias and watching another line of thunderstorms split and go around her.… — Andrew Geyer Copy Share Image
Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps? — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
I really like the whole urban farming idea, because I grow my own produce in L.A., and I think it's great to… — Jamie-Lynn Sigler Copy Share Image
