The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
“Magic was precarious by nature, and potatoes were safe by comparison.” — Michelle Franklin Copy Share Image
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages. — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel. — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days. — Henri Alain Liogier Copy Share Image
Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons… — Emiliano Zapata Copy Share Image
“There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Farmers had freed themselves in part from the blind natural forces of storm and insects only to become increasingly the victims of… — Grant McConnell 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
To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape… — Fay Godwin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming… — Margot Robbie Copy Share Image
New York has an amazing history of farming and fishing that goes right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. At its core are… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
I live in a joint family with 17 members under one roof. My father is an MA, but he didn't get a… — Hima Das Copy Share Image
The status of women up to now has been compared to that of a slave; women have been tied to the home,… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“Through my history's despite and ruin, I have come to its remainder, and here have made the beginning of a farm intended… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I was called up to do farmwork back in my days at elementary school, I always felt that I was contributing in… — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
When farming became a corporate venture, and the distribution of food became corporate, the variety of foods that were considered good diminished… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
You do need some dispensation for local farmers, because the fast food industry will promote the unsanitary conditions of farming. With vegetables,… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“At Hamilton Brothers, not much is self-serve, and I was forced to interact with the guys at the counter. These were all… — Brent Preston Copy Share Image
You go to towns in Massachusetts, Greenfield, first settled in 1686. Wouldn’t it be cool if it said, “Greenfield. First settled c.… — James W. Loewen 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
The fortunate and successful New Urbanists will be the ones who can find local infill projects in small towns and small cities… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I envision a day when every city and town has front and back yards, community gardens and growing spaces, nurtured into life… — Greg Peterson Copy Share Image
“Increasingly, we will be faced with a choice: whether to keep the oceans for wild fish or farmed fish. Farming domesticated species… — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it's the place where we find the deepest heartache. — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
“All of us were fighting long before we were farming and raising livestock.” — James Luceno Copy Share Image
“We all have our hobbies,” Kaden replied. He could have been discussing farming techniques.” — Brian Staveley Copy Share Image
I really am serious abut catfish farming. I'm very interested in aquaculture. — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps? — Dolores Huerta 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
“Excuse me, I must commit Sudoku! Give me a few minutes, please. I have to solve this puzzle.” — L. Meili Copy Share Image
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