Farming Quotes · Page 4

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

— Alice Walker

Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.

— James Cromwell

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

— Amit Kalantri

The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

— Masanobu Fukuoka

Networking is more about farming than it is about hunting.

— Ivan Misner

I really abhor factory farming and its byproducts so I live a vegan lifestyle as much as I can.

— Grace Dent

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

— Edward Dahlberg

Even if you live in New York City, you can have a little basil plant in your window, and that could be…

— Novella Carpenter

Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.

— Wendell Berry

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

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

— Pope John XXIII

The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.

— Wendell Berry

We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is…

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

“Smart people don't work with their hands. If you have a brain, being outside and performing physical labor are the things you…

— Brent Preston

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

It's like if every single male artist dressed up as farmers. In every video they were on a farm. Whether it was…

— Caitlin Moran

“The nutritional composition of beef provides much-needed protein, vitamins and iron… Let us also not gloss over what is beef's most obvious…

— Jayson Lusk

The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain…

— Arthur Capper

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

The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby…

— Peter Singer

“The corn is planted first, followed by beans, then squash between the rows.They are called the Three Sisters. They sustain each other,…

— Elizabeth Haydon

New York has an amazing history of farming and fishing that goes right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. At its core are…

— Daniel Boulud

[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives…

— Daniel Quinn

The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without…

— Anonymous

The idea of hunting and gathering as the best way for life has become quite popular recently, much more populare in some…

— Walter Truett Anderson

“The same teen who can't legally operate a four-wheeler, or [ATV]...in a farm lane workplace environment can operate a jacked-up F-250 pickup…

— Joel Salatin

The dance is the most universal of the arts, since, as Goethe justly said, it could destroy all the fine arts. It…

— Gerard van der Leeuw

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

— Hannah Nordhaus

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

— Ruth Asawa

Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.

— Doug Larson

Unless people can become natural people, there can be neither natural farming nor natural food.

— Masanobu Fukuoka

I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs.

— Jessica Lynch

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

— Skeet Ulrich

With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse

— W. H. Auden

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Plant trees. It’s a way to improve the future from the ground up.”

— Jarod Kintz

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

— M. S. Swaminathan

Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions…

— Joan Jett