"Trade is 10 times as old as farming." — Matt Ridley

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• I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.' — Lauren Bacall
• Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat. — Wendell Berry
• Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be… — Wendell Berry
• I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm… — Anthony Bourdain
• The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the… — David R. Brower
• The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to… — Wendell Berry
• Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work. — Cato the Elder
• It is now 14 years since I first suggested that organic farming might have some benefits and ought to be… — Prince Charles
• I can't give you a specific number today, in large part because the analysis upon which we would make that… — Tom Vilsack
• The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of… — Peter Singer
• Salmon farming-the placement of large metal or mesh net cages in the ocean to grow fish-was pioneered in Norway in… — David Suzuki
• Organic farming has been shown to provide major benefits for wildlife and the wider environment. The best that can be… — Prince Charles

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