Farming Quotes

177 quotes by 140 authors

All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban… — Geoff Mulgan
There are a few people out there with whom you fit just so, and, amazingly, you keep fitting just so even after you have growth… — Lauren F. Winner
For years now I've kind of operated under an informal shopping cycle. A bit like a farmer's crop rotation system. Except, instead of wheat, maize,… — Sophie Kinsella
Factory farming isn't just killing: It is negation, a complete denial of the animal as a living being with his or her own needs and… — Matthew Scully
Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse… — Wystan Hugh Auden
There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other… — Aldo Leopold
So, is there hope for a truly democratic Africa? Long answer: Only if continent-wide improvements in education, human rights and public health are coupled with… — Jon Stewart
And I have to tell you, as tough as farming is, the idea of farming when youâ€™re losing money year after year... thatâ€™s not life… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise… — Sophie Kinsella
We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings. — Masanobu Fukuoka
When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The… — Masanobu Fukuoka
You know what would help this boy?" Demeter mused. "Farming." Persephone rolled her eyes. "Mother-" "Six months behind a plow. Excellent character building. — Rick Riordan
[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work… — Daniel Quinn
Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by farmers. The spread… — Jared Diamond
We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden… — Jonathan Safran Foer
More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even… — Michael Pollan
Of all the systems of the body - neurological, cognitive, special, sensory - the cardiological system is the most sensitive and easily disturbed. The role… — Lauren Oliver
If you think youâ€™re enlightened go spend a week with your family. — Ram Dass
The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease… — Wendell Berry

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