Minority Quote by George Monbiot

“The only useful generalization I’d hazard about rural politics is that they tend to break on the line of “insider” vs. “outsider.” When my…

— Barbara Kingsolver

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the…

— Hesiod

My real emphasis is on the farmers who are taking care of the land, the farmers who are really thinking about our nourishment.

— Alice Waters

“throughout human history farmers have tended to despise hunter-gatherers as primitive, hunter-gatherers have despised farmers as ignorant, and herders have despised both.”

— Jared Diamond

Some have said I focus on marginalized communities, but it's not like that was my mission statement. I've just told stories that interest me,…

— Sean Baker

Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily,…

— Wendell Berry

Urbanites may picture farmers as hip heritage-pig breeders returning to the land, or a struggling rural underclass waging a doomed battle to hang on…

— Chrystia Freeland

I am local, rural, communal. And I find that the whole world is a community. We have made progress in asserting our local community…

— Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher

“Urbanity provides us with so many ways to avoid people. Isn't that what distinguishes it from traditional rural life, where the onus, perhaps because…

— Tabish Khair

There are people who have no engaged conversation with the land whatsoever, no sense of its beauty or extremes or limits and therefore no…

— Ellen Meloy

If you're trying to deal with being a marginalized person and trying to confront a larger population that isn't the same as you, you…

— Ezra Furman

City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.

— Melina Marchetta