Acre Quotes
47 Acre quotes by 45 unique authors
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Uncle Sam is not often called a fool in business matters, yet he has sold millions of acres of timber land at two dollars and…
— John Muir
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want…
— Zach Galifianakis
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I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce…
— Annie Dillard
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Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.
— David F. Houston
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It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the…
— Ralph Merkle
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Herbert, my father, was born in Britain but went out to Africa in his teens to join his father and built up an 18,000-acre ranch…
— Wilbur Smith
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We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.
— Tanya Tucker
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Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Nicholas wanted to believe in fairy tales. She'd read her share, hoping for miracles, but in the end, there was no hundred acre wood to…
— Christine Feehan
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In my opinion, if 100% of the people were farming it would be ideal. If each person were given one quarter-acre, that is 1 1/4…
— Masanobu Fukuoka
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The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre…
— Guy Davenport
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A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books…
— Jon Katz
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Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are among the most entertaining and beloved characters ever animated by Disney.
— John Lasseter
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The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is broken down by…
— Alex Shoumatoff
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I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.
— Pawan Kalyan
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My father was a prosperous hatter-farmer - making hats for the local markets during the winter months, tilling his little ten-acre farm during the summer…
— Jenkin Lloyd Jones
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Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred…
— Robert Grosseteste
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An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough…
— Alexandra Paul
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I live up at about the 2000 feet level on a five acre piece of forest that I built a small house on.
— Terence McKenna
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I contend that every acre added to our territory means in the future birth to some more of the English race who otherwise would not…
— Cecil Rhodes
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Making hits in three acre cribs. Cooking up tryna eat niggas, steak and ribs.
— Drake
Who Wrote These Acre Quotes
45 authors contributed a total of 47 Acre Quotes, led by these top contributors: