Farming Quotes

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all on my own.

Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.

Farming is a profession of hope

Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.

Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation...o f human beings!

The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

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, for they are all farming by proxy.

Organic farming is personal.

Organic farming is about buying out of a corrupt, illegal and dishonest system.

Unless people can become natural people, there can be neither natural farming nor natural food.

I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.

Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.

As you have sown so shall you reap.

Natural farming is just farming, nothing more. You don't have to be a spiritually oriented person to practice my methods.

There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule].

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

On a farm the best fertilizer is the master's eye.

The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.

Factory farming is the attitude that commodifies sentient life.

Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England.

You need bad things to make good things. It’s like with farming— if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of manure.

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

Networking is more about farming than it is about hunting.

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.

Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrante delicto has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

I'm very familiar with the importance of dairy farming in Wisconsin. I've spent the night on a dairy farm here in Wisconsin. If I'm entrusted with the presidency, you'll have someone who is very familiar with what the Wisconsin dairy industry is all about.

Outlaw embryo farming, but allow using surplus embryos.

Trade is 10 times as old as farming.

How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.

With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse

Farming -- a vocation accursed of heaven, since one never saw a millionaire involved in it.

A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.

You have stirred the soil with your plow, my friend. It will never be the same again.

I like to hunt. After baseball, I'll go back and buy some land and do some farming.

A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.

Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure.

Old models of farming with chemicals and credit mostly favored privileged men.

The best farming systems are ones where animals and plants are put into a synergistic relationship.

Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.

A farm is like a very large and extended baby. It takes a great deal of time and very little mentality.

Improving Africa's farming sector would have multiple positive outcomes for African people.

Good farming, clear thinking, right living.

From my standpoint, coca should be neither destroyed nor completely legalized. Farming should be controlled by the state and by the coca farmers' unions.

My label is just "good farming", which isn't something you can put on a t-shirt.

Even if you live in New York City, you can have a little basil plant in your window, and that could be considered urban farming.