Age life Quote by Caterina Fake

The American farmer, whose holdings were not so extensive as those of the grandee nor so tiny as those of the peasant, whose psychology…

— Richard Hofstadter

We were just country people. All my grandfathers had farms. They had chickens, cattle and tried to get by farming, for the most part.

— Jeff Sessions

As a society, we devalued farming as an occupation and encouraged the best students to leave the farm for 'better' jobs in the city.…

— Michael Pollan

Sometimes a rural life - without agricultural culture, community, or land - it means that you're a very long drive from everything. It's a…

— Debra Granik

So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have…

— Bill Bryson

There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer…

— Rose Wilder Lane

Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.

— Michael Pollan

After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be…

— David Ricardo

“...Most peasants never traveled farther than twenty-five miles from the village of their birth. They had strong social ties to their communities, and could…

— Patricia D. Netzley

In the old days of America when communities were separated by hundreds of miles, why were they able to thrive? Because if it was…

— Benjamin Carson

“With the advent of controlled-environment agriculture it had become nearly impossible for individual farm families to compete economically with the mass-production greenhouses, so in…

— Gerard K. O'Neill

Even in the early days of America when it was largely an agrarian or agricultural, farmer-type of economy. There were still cities; there were…

— Rush Limbaugh