Good Farming Quotes

#1. To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.

Wendell Berry

#2. Good farming, clear thinking, right living.

Henry A. Wallace

#3. An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating

Wendell Berry

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

Wendell Berry

#5. He was born to be a farmer. It was something that he was good at, something he knew well. He was a giver of life, an alchemist that worked in dirt, seed, and manure.

Tracy Winegar

#6. 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

#7. There's no such thing as a perfect person in this world.

Gosho Aoyama

#8. Good neighbors are worth more than an extra sixteen trees.

David Mas Masumoto

#9. We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.

Wendell Berry

#10. Sometimes I get nice letters from people who know they're due to meet him (Death) soon, and hope I've got him right.
Those are the kind of letters that cause me to stare at the wall for some time.

Terry Pratchett

#11. I was born curious.

Peter Guber

#12. If you want to be a legitimate artist, it's more important what you say no to.

Kesha

#13. From the time I was a small boy, I remember working in the fields with my grandfather and father. We weren't growing grapes, but we were farming crops, creating something good out of the earth.

Scott Pruett

#14. A farmer cannot think too much evil of a good farmer.

John Steinbeck

#15. We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.

Charles Kingsley

#16. A determined Yankee book drummer once told a Southerner that 'a set of books on scientific agriculture' would teach him to 'farm twice as good as you do.' To which the Southerner replied: 'Hell, son, I don't farm half as good as I know how now.

Grady McWhiney

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

Jane Smiley

#18. When we destroy the fertile lands, we destroy our own good life!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#19. It's important to look at the big picture of life, as long as it's not through a small screen

Benny Bellamacina

#20. There are keyboard terrorists everywhere who hide behind a veil of anonymity to pursue their vicious slanders.

Peter Hook

#21. Embarrassed, she quickly met his eyes again. It looked like he come right out of the lake water and made a beeline for her. But how could he haver known she was there? How could he have seen her from the water?

Sarah Addison Allen

#22. Nobody is going to invest a fortune into good orchard land, all the farming equipment necessary, the fertilizer, the seedlings, the nonstop Herculean work effort needed to grow apples, then bring them to the fruit stand for people to take home for free.

Ted Nugent

#23. All good farmers become connoisseurs of dirt and dust.

David Mas Masumoto

#24. I grew up believing that the willingness and ability to work is the basic ingredient of successful farming. Hard, intelligent work is the key. Use it, and your chances for success are good.

Ezra Taft Benson

#25. The culture of good place-making, like the culture of farming, or agriculture, is a body of knowledge and acquired skills. It is not bred in the bone, and if it is not transmitted from one generation to the next, it is lost.

James Howard Kunstler

#26. I am quite content to come home and go to Farming, be a select Man, and owe no Man any Thing but good Will. There I can get a little health and teach my Boys to be Lawyers.

John Adams

#27. There's a big difference between guiding and controlling.

Colin Munroe

#28. Social scientists are not universally liked or appreciated, but we are still marginally more acceptable than alcoholics and escaped lunatics.

Kate Fox

#29. Life on the farm had fed his soul since he was a child. he was ever grateful to Gott for giving him a chance to work the land and live by the seasons. It was a good life...but a lonely one for a man his age, a man too old to be living with his family.

Rosalind Lauer