1.
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.
David Ricardo
2.
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.
Emiliano Zapata
3.
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.
Scott Baio
5.
Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
Cato the Elder
6.
Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation...o f human beings!
Masanobu Fukuoka
7.
Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?
Dolores Huerta
8.
The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.
Thomas Jefferson
9.
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
Edward Dahlberg
10.
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.
Wendell Berry
11.
I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.
Kevin Nealon
13.
Organic farming is about buying out of a corrupt, illegal and dishonest system.
Jerry Brown
14.
Unless people can become natural people, there can be neither natural farming nor natural food.
Masanobu Fukuoka
15.
Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.
Ruth Stout
17.
Natural farming is just farming, nothing more. You don't have to be a spiritually oriented person to practice my methods.
Masanobu Fukuoka
19.
There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule].
Thein Sein
20.
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
E. B. White
21.
The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.
Jonathan Safran Foer
22.
Factory farming is the attitude that commodifies sentient life.
Gene Baur
23.
Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.
George Crabbe
24.
Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England.
Charles Sturt
25.
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.
Mike Watt
26.
Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
Henry David Thoreau
27.
Networking is more about farming than it is about hunting.
Ivan Misner
28.
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.
P. J. O'Rourke
30.
I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.
Peter Singer
31.
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.
Al Gore
33.
Outlaw embryo farming, but allow using surplus embryos.
Mitt Romney
34.
Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.
Sue Hubbell
35.
A technological revolution on the farm has led to an output explosion--but we have not yet learned to harness that explosion usefully, while protecting our farmers' right to full parity income
John F. Kennedy
36.
I grew up doing farm work, and there's a deep connection between the demands of farming and the demands of art creation. My sense of space and material has a lot to do with having been a chicken-killer and working with cows.
Carolee Schneemann
37.
There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding...
Vita Sackville-West
38.
There is a very strong deal for our farmers to start with. So from the export of farming, which is being looked at to make up some of the lost ground from the resources boom, to just about every area.
Andrew Robb
39.
How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.
Jane Smiley
40.
With the farming of a verse
Make a vineyard of the curse
W. H. Auden
41.
Farming -- a vocation accursed of heaven, since one never saw a millionaire involved in it.
Gustave Flaubert
42.
A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.
Bharati Mukherjee
43.
You have stirred the soil with your plow, my friend. It will never be the same again.
Martha Ostenso
44.
I like to hunt. After baseball, I'll go back and buy some land and do some farming.
Jeremy Bonderman
45.
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.
Ellen Glasgow
46.
Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure.
Noam Chomsky
47.
Old models of farming with chemicals and credit mostly favored privileged men.
Frances Moore Lappé
48.
Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
Wendell Berry
49.
The best farming systems are ones where animals and plants are put into a synergistic relationship.
Michael Pollan
50.
A farm is like a very large and extended baby. It takes a great deal of time and very little mentality.
Anne Bosworth Greene