The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. — 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
A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty. — Bharati Mukherjee 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
“I know the pleasure of pulling up root vegetables. They are solvable mysteries.” — Novella Carpenter Copy Share Image
Improving Africa's farming sector would have multiple positive outcomes for African people. — Richard Attias Copy Share Image
“Wherever farming took root, violence emerged as a more important feature of social life.” — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I don’t know of a better argument in favor of farming with horses than trying to start an old tractor in the… — Gene Logsdon Copy Share Image
“I'm growing as a person. I'm self-farming. That's the highest form of farming, even greater than being a duck farmer, which, as… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The first thing that comes up about farming is the hard work. That connection we had as a family, being around each… — Jordy Nelson Copy Share Image
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 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
In one sense, what happens for me outside of cricket gives me that break - the farming means I have a really… — Alastair Cook Copy Share Image
There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The human population is too large, and the earth too small, to sustain us in the ways our ancestors lived. Most of… — Nina Fedoroff 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
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
The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of… — Robert Mugabe 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
There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
Both my best and worst memories are of my time in Nicaragua. The experience as a whole was totally redeeming and amazing.… — Eden Sher 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
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
Once women invented farming, and began to keep and breed animals, they discovered the crucial function of the rooster and the henhouse.… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
There are a few people out there with whom you fit just so, and, amazingly, you keep fitting just so even after… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
“As a working definition of art, I lean toward Tolstoy's: "Art is a human activity having for it's purpose the transmission to… — Gene Logsdon Copy Share Image
“What to wear on a Minnesota farm? The older farmers I know wear brown polyester jumpsuits, like factory workers. The younger ones… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
“Over a long time, the coming and passing of several generations, the old farm had settled into its patterns and cycles of… — Wendell Berry 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
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