Acres Quote by William Petty

Since moving to the countryside I've become very much more in touch with the importance of nature, the value of my surroundings. I've got…

— Jack Savoretti

“An area of land used for crops will feed about ten times as many people as the same area of land used for grass-fed…

— Peter Singer

A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.

— Wendell Berry

Soil is a living ecosystem, and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his…

— Howard Warren Buffett

“Healthy soil is contingent on the actions of the animals that live on the land; livestock could be made to act upon the soil…

— Judith D. Schwartz

When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.

— John Stuart Mill

“Here the goals of improving land and making a profit would not be mutually exclusive: Holistic Planned Grazing requires a lot of animals, and…

— Judith D. Schwartz

For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its…

— Wendell Berry

“Over a long time, the coming and passing of several generations, the old farm had settled into its patterns and cycles of work -…

— Wendell Berry

To get the most from agricultural resources, poor farmers' needs must come first, guiding investment strategies and forming the yardstick for gauging results.

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell

As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture; they will find it in their natural--their…

— Edmund Burke

The most insistent and formidable concern of agriculture, wherever it is taken seriously, is the distinct individuality of every farm, every field on every…

— Wendell Berry