Animal Quote by Miles Franklin

Approaches to growing food that align with nature changed human relationships.

— Frances Moore Lappé

“For the vast majority of our time on earth, our species did not buy its food or its clothing or its shelter or its…

— Matthew Fox

“Human nature has been landscaped, replanted, weeded, fertilized, fenced off, seeded, and irrigated as intensively as any garden or seaside golf course. Human beings…

— Christopher Ryan

We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature to relationship with nature. The moment you change from ownership to relationship, you create…

— Satish Kumar

“Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

“Nature is self-renewing as it adjusts to maintain balance. Nature becomes even more vibrant as it yields to allow recycling. It is best to…

— Franklin Gillette

“Human beings have been under cultivation longer than we’ve been cultivating anything else. Our cultures domesticate us for obscure purposes, nurturing and encouraging certain…

— Christopher Ryan

Many people think that when we practice agriculture, nature is helping us in our efforts to grow food. This is an exclusively human-centered viewpoint...…

— Masanobu Fukuoka

Once you engage with the simple enough business of feeding yourself, of soil and water, weather, season and harvest, it becomes personal. It is…

— Monty Don

And I don't mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken seriously as proposing that the ennui of modernity is the consequence of a…

— Terence McKenna

The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it

— Henry Mayhew

It isn't the kind of profession that you have that makes you flourish; it's what you are coming from, within, that makes you flourish.…

— John de Ruiter