Farming Quotes · Page 5

Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England.

— Charles Sturt

Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved.

— Michael Pollan

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.

— George Crabbe

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.

— Aldo Leopold

If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.

— Nina Fedoroff

A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the…

— Ellen Glasgow

Factory farming is the attitude that commodifies sentient life.

— Gene Baur

Five generations of back ache, wrinkles and empty penny jars.. why do we do it?! Dur its farming, simply loving life and…

— Laura Claxton

Connecticut has a vibrant farming community - the products they produce are world-class and we want to help support the continued growth…

— Ned Lamont

I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and…

— Lance Armstrong

From my standpoint, coca should be neither destroyed nor completely legalized. Farming should be controlled by the state and by the coca…

— Evo Morales

I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding…

— Masanobu Fukuoka

In one sense, what happens for me outside of cricket gives me that break - the farming means I have a really…

— Alastair Cook

The first thing that comes up about farming is the hard work. That connection we had as a family, being around each…

— Jordy Nelson

As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita…

— Dita Von Teese

I'm very familiar with the importance of dairy farming in Wisconsin. I've spent the night on a dairy farm here in Wisconsin.…

— Al Gore

I don't know Hillary's Clinton stance on urban farming. I don't know Donald Trump's stance or Bernie Sanders's for that matter. But…

— Novella Carpenter

If we are bold in our thinking, courageous in accepting new ideas, and willing to work with instead of against our land,…

— Hugh Hammond Bennett

One of the most important discoveries I made in those early years was that to succeed at natural farming, you have to…

— Masanobu Fukuoka

And above all, above all, honest work must be rewarded by a fair and just tax system. The tax system today does…

— George McGovern

My dad was a breeder. Most of his work happened in little test plots and didn't require much labor. He tried growing…

— Sanjay Rawal

The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all…

— Joel Salatin

Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other…

— Carl L. Becker

[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 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

[My father] did get enough money to buy mules. We didn't have tractors, but he bought mules, wagons, cultivators and some farming…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

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

So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living?…

— Bill Bryson

Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by…

— Jared Diamond

There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding...

— Vita Sackville-West

No animal needs to die in order for me to live. And that makes me feel good.

— Howard Lyman

“We got a saying around here about our corn, ‘it grows knee-high by the Fourth of July.”

— Richard Puz

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

— Masanobu Fukuoka

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

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

— Jessica Lynch

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

— Jarod Kintz

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

— Henry David Thoreau