Urban farming appeals to people on the right and the left. People have different reasons for getting into it. Some people are… — Novella Carpenter Copy Share Image
The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home… — Ann Voskamp 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 seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west,… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
Of course, I prefer organic farming to chemical-dependent farming, but sometimes absolutist organic prescriptions go too far. I don't even rule out… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
I can't give you a specific number today, in large part because the analysis upon which we would make that determination has… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I think the initial reason why I became interested in farming is that I wanted to be outdoors. I've always enjoyed being… — Ian Wilmut 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
Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of… — Mark Shand Copy Share Image
I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“She went about that afternoon looking under sheep like a pervert, happy with all the dark, purple-pink tissue at their hindquarters. New… — Judith Ivory Copy Share Image
“In Spain, hilly terrain and antiquated planting and harvest practices keep farmers from retrieving more than about 100 pounds [of almonds] per… — Hannah Nordhaus Copy Share Image
Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully… — Matthew Scully 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
Meditation is like farming... the right soil is required to grow anything, nothing will grow if the soil is polluted by striving… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain… — Arthur Capper Copy Share Image
I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Pawnee City, Nebraska. I lived right next to the sale barn and I raised pigs. My… — Larry the Cable Guy Copy Share Image
“You need skills to be good at homesteading. You need farming, carpentry, and above all, you need to be able to impersonate… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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