We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The Prisoner's Wife echoes Edwidge Danticat's Farming of the Bones in the urgency in which it reminds us of the possibility of… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
IT WAS TESS who told me about the crowd going to the all-night dance. We'd been school friends. We'd picked mushrooms and… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
A farm is like a very large and extended baby. It takes a great deal of time and very little mentality. — Anne Bosworth Greene Copy Share Image
In our society, we move people out of government. It's all operated by machines, meaning – not the people, just the products:… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Before researchers become researchers they should become philosophers. They should consider what the human goal is, what it is that humanity should… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
“I should understand the land, not as a commodity, an inert fact to be taken for granted, but as an ultimate value,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
“Men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“With tractors, you just don’t get the feel of tilling that land. So when planting season comes around, I use a hoe.… — M.C. Humphreys Copy Share Image
As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out at night,… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. All the wild seeds of weed and thistle, the… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
You need bad things to make good things. It’s like with farming— if you want to grow a good crop, you need… — Mike Watt Copy Share Image
In my opinion, if 100% of the people were farming it would be ideal. If each person were given one quarter-acre, that… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing… — Nathan Deal Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
once a man had thrust his hands into the soil and knew the grit of it between his teeth, he felt something… — Martha Ostenso Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who is strong and confident, yet humble. Intelligent, but not sly. A leader who encourages diversity, not racism. One… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.). — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
