Greater good Quote by Gene Doucette

“Wherever farming took root, violence emerged as a more important feature of social life.”

— James Dale Davidson

“Farming, I discovered, is a great and ongoing war. The farmers are continually fighting to keep nature behind the hedgerow, and nature is continually…

— Kristin Kimball

“All of us were fighting long before we were farming and raising livestock.”

— James Luceno

“Nor could wheat offer security against human violence. The early farmers were at least as violent as their forager ancestors, if not more”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“I was called up to do farmwork back in my days at elementary school, I always felt that I was contributing in some small…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“Farming is backbreaking work, but at least it is honest labor. This killing isn’t honest. It is thievery… the thievery of men’s lives, and…

— Christopher Paolini

“The idea of property emerged as an inevitable consequence of farming.”

— James Dale Davidson

“They call this place a farm — but no farmer could possibly make a living from it these days, no matter how hard he worked.”

— Alexander Key

“The act of farming starts in the heart before it reaches the soil.”

— Olawale Daniel

“We have let the factory farm replace farming for the same reasons our cultures have relegated minorities to being second-class members of society and…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“For we must farm or die. In undertaking farming we undertake a responsibility covering the whole life cycle. We can break it or keep…

— LORD NORTHBOURNE

“Then why didn’t humans abandon farming when the plan backfired? Partly because it took generations for the small changes to accumulate and transform society…

— Yuval Noah Harari