Farms Quotes

137 Farms quotes by 122 unique authors

Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections… — Jonathan Safran Foer
If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When people say, for… — Matthew Scully
What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable... Factory farms calculate… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The sun was good. The men of the llano were men of the sun. The men of the farms along the river were men of… — Rudolfo Anaya
He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms… — Erin Morgenstern
Farms and food production should be, I submit, at least as important as who pierced their navel in Hollywood this week. Please tell me I'm… — Joel Salatin
I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being like a nearly… — Fernando Pessoa
Oh land of farms and green hills mild Once formed by giants rough and wild With massive paws they gripped and tore With one great… — Shannon Hale
They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why… — Ernest Hemingway
A sickening howl stopped her, sucking the air out of her lungs. The night's chatter silenced, even the loitering city rats pausing to listen. Scarlet… — Marissa Meyer
A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this Earth to give us a breathing spell ... as we exhaust them,… — George Washington Carver
Before I became a full-time writer, I worked in tech support in those giant cubicle farms you see. I was surrounded by people who played… — Ernest Cline
Previous generations used to eat locally out of necessity. Without options like flash-freezing and worldwide export services, communities had to rely on local farms for… — Homaro Cantu
Shrimp farms are a scourge on the earth, frankly, from an environmental point of view. They pour huge amounts of pollutants into the ocean. They… — Jane Poynter
The approaching exhaustion of domestic reserves of petroleum and the rapid depletion of world reserves will have a profound effect on Americans in the cities… — Richard Lamm
All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every… — Zac Goldsmith
Buy foods from nearby farms and have that food served in the cafeteria. — Alice Waters
In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off… — Alice Walker
Farm Aid was started in 1985 by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews as a concert to support small local farms in… — Rebecca Pidgeon
We go to several farms and look at foraging, and throw backyard parties with friends. We want to let people know they can enjoy a… — Debi Mazar
New Jersey is the most poetic state: close enough to New York to be urban and cosmopolitan, far enough to be desirous and unsure; densely… — Robert Pinsky
We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to… — Jack Williamson
Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterhouses. The brutality that these animals endure would be grounds… — Peter Dinklage
Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they can… — George Crook

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