Farming Quotes
177 quotes by 140 authors
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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
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
— Wendell Berry
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
— Cato the Elder
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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You need bad things to make good things. It’s like with farming— if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of…
— Mike Watt
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Farming Quotes
140 authors contributed a total of 177 Farming Quotes, led by these top contributors: