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Farming Quotes

1.
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.
David Ricardo

Authors on Farming Quotes: Wendell Berry Masanobu Fukuoka Dave Carter Jerry Brown Thomas Jefferson Edward Dahlberg Henry David Thoreau W. H. Auden Bharati Mukherjee Matt Ridley Marcus Tullius Cicero David Ricardo Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Richard Attias Ellen Glasgow Novella Carpenter Brian Brett P. J. O'Rourke Mike Watt Ivan Misner Dolores Huerta John F. Kennedy Sue Hubbell Emiliano Zapata Kevin Nealon Vita Sackville-West Anne Bosworth Greene E. B. White Mitt Romney George Crabbe Cato the Elder Jonathan Safran Foer Ruth Stout
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

4.
Farming is a profession of hope
Brian Brett

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

12.
Organic farming is personal.
Dave Carter

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

16.
As you have sown so shall you reap.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

17.
Natural farming is just farming, nothing more. You don't have to be a spiritually oriented person to practice my methods.
Masanobu Fukuoka

18.
On a farm the best fertilizer is the master's eye.
Pliny the Elder

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

29.
Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

32.
Trade is 10 times as old as farming.
Matt Ridley

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