You have stirred the soil with your plow, my friend. It will never be the same again. — Martha Ostenso Copy Share Image
If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again. — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation...o f human beings! — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone. — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
I really abhor factory farming and its byproducts so I live a vegan lifestyle as much as I can. — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
From the time I was a small boy, I remember working in the fields with my grandfather and father. We weren't growing… — Scott Pruett Copy Share Image
The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
I want Britain to lead the world in food and farming and to do that we need enough productive agricultural land. — Liz Truss Copy Share Image
In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it. — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Farming, from an outside perspective, can be viewed as a romantic, free and off-the-grid life, but the constant work of it means… — Amy Pietz Copy Share Image
A technological revolution on the farm has led to an output explosion--but we have not yet learned to harness that explosion usefully,… — John F. Kennedy 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
I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest… — Zola Budd Copy Share Image
Analysis of President Bush's tax plan has revealed that several elaborate tricks and gimmicks were used to make it look like a… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I tell my students, if you're interested in marine biology or llama farming, follow that string. Yes, it will probably take you… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
I grew up doing farm work, and there's a deep connection between the demands of farming and the demands of art creation.… — Carolee Schneemann Copy Share Image
Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing;… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Urban farming appeals to people on the right and the left. People have different reasons for getting into it. Some people are… — Novella Carpenter 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
People say to us how brave we are, fighting the wilderness, braving the isolation of the Outback. But these are easy opponents,… — Sara Henderson Copy Share Image
“Why Brownlee left, and where he went, Is a mystery even now. For if a man should have been content It was… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
We need to realize that these industrial methods of farming have gotten us used to cheap food. The corollary of cheap food… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain. — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all. — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
“We got a saying around here about our corn, ‘it grows knee-high by the Fourth of July.” — Richard Puz Copy Share Image
There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding... — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
