Citizens Quote by Aldo Leopold

“It is an eccentric and uniquely human approach to resources: like plowing under your farmland to make way for more lawns, or compromising your…

— John Vaillant

Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens.

— Michael Palin

Widely spaced earth-sheltered towns offer sweeping views over the plains. High-speed trains link the communities. Food is grown in the region. Bikeways are everywhere.…

— Malcolm Wells

While some livestock farms are much better than others, there are none in this country that look like natural ecosystems. Nature has no fences.

— George Monbiot

There is a very strong deal for our farmers to start with. So from the export of farming, which is being looked at to…

— Andrew Robb

Agriculture is a sleeping giant. We have so many opportunities for commercial feedlots on reclaimed mine sites, possibilities for taking advantage of our waters,…

— Jim Justice

Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops, and mobile…

— Van Jones

The greenest of pastures are right here on earth.

— Jennifer Donnelly

A farm regulated to production of raw commodities is not a farm at all. It is a temporary blip until the land is used…

— Joel Salatin

Growing up on a Cumbrian farm showed me first hand that you get out of life what you put in. If you don't put…

— Helen Skelton

“It has become increasingly clear that the way we farm affects the local community, and that the economy of the local community affects the…

— Wendell Berry

For all-around, everyday, all-season wear, farmers can't be beat. They are inclined to chafe under the burden of leisure (a minor vexation on the…

— Patricia Penton Leimbach