Farming Quotes

177 quotes by 140 authors

Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore violates… — Karl Marx
We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion,… — Charles Kingsley
The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without live stock; she… — Albert Howard
As you have sown so shall you reap. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out… — Anne Tyler
I envision a day when every city and town has front and back yards, community gardens and growing spaces, nurtured into life by neighbors who… — Greg Peterson
No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain. — George Crabbe
So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel. — Daryl Hannah
One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all… — Emiliano Zapata
A paradigm shift, where, in addition to physical inputs for farming, a focused emphasis placed on knowledge inputs can be a promising way forward. This… — Pratibha Patil
Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by… — Yanis Varoufakis
There are 6.6 billion people on the planet today. With organic farming we could only feed four billion of them. Which two billion would volunteer… — Norman Borlaug
Factory farming is the attitude that commodifies sentient life. — Gene Baur
Erotic practices have become diversified. Sex used to be a single-crop farming, like cotton or wheat; now people raise all kinds of things. — Saul Bellow
The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to… — Bill Gates
We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about -… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of… — Dorothy Day
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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