Farming Quotes

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I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.' — Lauren Bacall
Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat. — Wendell Berry
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for… — Wendell Berry
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 advocate for the… — Anthony Bourdain
The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the… — David R. Brower
The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a… — Wendell Berry
Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work. — Cato the Elder
It is now 14 years since I first suggested that organic farming might have some benefits and ought to be taken seriously. I shall never… — Prince Charles
I can't give you a specific number today, in large part because the analysis upon which we would make that determination has not been completed.… — Tom Vilsack
The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby gorilla at the… — Peter Singer
Salmon farming-the placement of large metal or mesh net cages in the ocean to grow fish-was pioneered in Norway in the 1960s. Since then, the… — David Suzuki
Organic farming has been shown to provide major benefits for wildlife and the wider environment. The best that can be said about genetically engineered crops… — Prince Charles
It is vitally important that we can continue to say, with absolute conviction, that organic farming delivers the highest quality, best-tasting food, produced without artificial… — Prince Charles
Many organic practices simply make sense, regardless of what overall agricultural system is used. Far from being a quaint throwback to an earlier time, organic… — David Suzuki
Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar. In every country… — Barbara Kingsolver
Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And… — Scott Baio
I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly realized that what was on… — Ellen DeGeneres
You need bad things to make good things. Itâ€™s like with farmingâ€” if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of… — Mike Watt
Because of the industrialization of agriculture -- using massive amounts of fossil fuel -- only 2 percent of Americans work in farming. And yet they… — Ann Coulter
The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution - moving from hunter-gathering… — Prince Charles

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