Farming Quotes

177 quotes by 140 authors

The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear… — Joel Salatin
So, if people didnâ€™t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no… — Bill Bryson
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
Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo. — Terry Pratchett
It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet and consumed more… — Bill Bryson
Organic farming appealed to me because it involved searching for and discovering nature's pathways, as opposed to the formulaic approach of chemical farming. The appeal… — Eliot Coleman
I volunteered on a farming community in Israel for two years when I was a teenager. One of the jobs involved clearing out a massive… — Nick Frost
The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems. — Marcus Samuelsson
I grew up off the grid in Vernon, and I saw my parents work hard every day, as teachers but also while farming and building… — Ryan Holmes
Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done. — Ruth Asawa
Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I… — Hamdi Ulukaya
My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation. — Alice Walker
Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I was impressed by a program called New Roots, which helps women refugees from countries in conflict to start new lives in the U.S. by… — Rebecca Pidgeon
The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting the art of… — Tristram Stuart
I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime. — Blake Shelton
Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of rapidly developing nations:… — Mark Shand
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching. — Seamus Heaney
In my mid-adolescence, my friend Terry Martin and I became obsessed with William F. Buckley. This makes more sense when you realize that we were… — Malcolm Gladwell
Back in 1990, there were fewer than 20 wineries in and around Paso Robles, a farming community midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Most… — Robert M. Parker, Jr.

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