Farmers Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image “Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Farmers Farming Farming and farmers Interesting Poor Proportion Respectable
Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One thing I've learned from my short time trying to be a farmer is that our farmers have to be the bravest, most optimistic… — Sara Henderson Copy Share Image
“Well!—an honest and industrious farmer is one of the most useful members of society;” — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Weve got nine generations of farmers in my family, in Warwickshire. And I do feel connected to being a farmers son. There was a… — Joseph Mawle Copy Share Image
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
We've got nine generations of farmers in my family, in Warwickshire. And I do feel connected to being a farmer's son. There was a… — Joseph Mawle Copy Share Image
“Why do farmers farm, given their economic adversities on top of the many frustrations and difficulties normal to farming? And always the answer is:… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are… — Ike Skelton Copy Share Image
Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money… — Laurance Labadie Copy Share Image
Im a farmer. I always will be a farmer. When I die, Ill be a farmer. Its something that Ive wanted to do since… — Jon Tester Copy Share Image
I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money. — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
It's a pleasure to talk to the farmers. That's my favorite part, always was. It's really the communication and exchange that builds communities. It's… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
In most agencies, account executives outnumber the copywriters two to one. If you were a dairy farmer, would you employ twice as many milkers… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way. And that’s why I’ve… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best thing for you to do is shop at your local farmer's market and support the organic growers who are there. Because those… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Elect me to office. I will protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. Because there's no constitutional authority for Congress spending on the objects of… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Genetic engineering is having a serious impact on the food we eat, on the environment, and on farmers. To ensure we can maximize benefits… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
