Although natural farming - since it can teach people to cultivate a deep understanding of nature - may lead to spiritual insight,… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“For we must farm or die. In undertaking farming we undertake a responsibility covering the whole life cycle. We can break it… — LORD NORTHBOURNE Copy Share Image
I'm a conversationalist. I came out of a town with only 300 people. I didn't have anybody to talk to. I didn't… — Jim "Dandy" Mangrum Copy Share Image
The emergence and spread of virulent strains of avian influenza has been attributed by experts to the intensely overcrowded, unsanitary, and stressful… — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
Some of us seem to be born with a drive to try to make the world kinder. In my twenties, living in… — Karen Dawn Copy Share Image
I think the initial reason why I became interested in farming is that I wanted to be outdoors. I've always enjoyed being… — Ian Wilmut Copy Share Image
To be able to donate money to effect change is extremely exciting. I think I'm very determined and persistent. All the things… — Jan Cameron 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
I stopped eating beef in high school, and in college I stopped eating poultry. I am not a huge fan of factory… — Susanna Thompson Copy Share Image
“I was struck by the fact that for Joel abjuring agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals is not so much a goal of his farming,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
One of the remarks made by farmers at their public discussion of these problems suggest that they are rapidly ceasing to think… — Kingsley Martin Copy Share Image
Erotic practices have become diversified. Sex used to be a single-crop farming, like cotton or wheat; now people raise all kinds of… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“People have been stabbed over spicy chicken sandwiches. The duck farm industry could benefit from that kind of violence to help increase… — Jarod Kintz 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
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
“Raw ingredients trump recipes every time; farmers and ranchers who coax the best from the earth can make any of us appear… — Judy Rodgers Copy Share Image
There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery,… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“Check your environment and be sure that it is supportive. Some environments do not support progress. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not fertile… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Factory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom, with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Contract farming can be promoted if it is structured on the basis of a win-win situation both for the producer and the… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
And a revolution of automation finds machines replacing men in the mines and mills of America, without replacing their incomes or their… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Factory farming, of course, does not cause all the world's problems, but is is remarkable just how many of them intersect there. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Meditation is like farming... the right soil is required to grow anything, nothing will grow if the soil is polluted by striving… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world? — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
“My ducks give me eggs, and I took two of those eggs and nurtured them under a dome to produce two ducklings.… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule]. — Thein Sein Copy Share Image
in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I want to pursue farming, and what better place to do it than at a hill station, which has a cool climate… — Jackie Shroff Copy Share Image
“You need skills to be good at homesteading. You need farming, carpentry, and above all, you need to be able to impersonate… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to support his own region and economy and farming. If we can preserve the land and if we can preserve… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
“The cost to reconnect animals to live in natural settings without human support is a debt that many animals in transition must… — Young Tim Copy Share Image
“An image suddenly loomed in his mind: the greenhouse effect. Yes. The Earth is a gigantic greenhouse. With us planted here millions… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image