Quotes About Farming

#1. If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.

James Cromwell

#2. Work as we know it now is a very recent historical development. It didn't exist before the great agricultural revolutions that made intensive farming possible about twelve thousand years ago.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#3. Our animals don't do drugs. Instead, we move them almost daily in a tightly choreographed ballet from pasture spot to pasture spot.

Joel Salatin

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

Jeremy Bonderman

#5. Of course, I prefer organic farming to chemical-dependent farming, but sometimes absolutist organic prescriptions go too far. I don't even rule out the possibility of genetic modification generating some benign ideas, as long as we can keep them away from monopolists such as Monsanto.

Tristram Stuart

#6. The Prisoner's Wife echoes Edwidge Danticat's Farming of the Bones in the urgency in which it reminds us of the possibility of love even amidst the ruins. This is a terrifying, heart-breaking and, ultimately, important book.

Junot Diaz

#7. A type of humility marks a real farmer. Those of us who battle nature all year must ultimately accept the had we're dealt.

David Mas Masumoto

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

Cato The Elder

#9. For the young, food is from Venus; farming is from Mars

Richard Louv

#10. As with any violent ideology, the populace must be shielded from direct exposure to the victims of the system, lest they begin questioning the system or their participation in it. This truth speaks for itself: why else would the meat industry go to such lengths to keep its practices invisible?

Melanie Joy

#11. Fair Trade supports some of the most bio-diverse farming systems in the world. When you visit a Fair Trade coffee grower's fields, with the forest canopy overhead and the sound of migratory songbirds in the air, it feels like you're standing in the rainforest.

Miguel A. Altieri

#12. The larger the corporation, the more distant its motives are apt to be from the original spirit of organic farming - and the farther the products will likely be shipped to buyers who will smile at the happy farm picture on the package, and never be the wiser.

Barbara Kingsolver

#13. Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#14. The fields are black and ploughed, and they lie like a great fan before us, with their furrows gathered in some hand beyond the sky, spreading forth from that hand, opening wide apart as they come toward us, like black pleats that sparkle with thin, green spangles.

Ayn Rand

#15. The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a divine drug. He enters into death yearly, and comes back rejoicing. He has seen the light lie down in the dung heap, and rise again in the corn.

Wendell Berry

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.

David Bowie

#19. I learned some invaluable lessons in Nashville that apply to both farming and show business: Do not corner something you know is meaner than you; keep skunks of all kinds at a distance; if you forgive your enemies, it messes up their heads.

Willie Nelson

#20. With the farming of a verse
Make a vineyard of the curse

W. H. Auden

#21. Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century.

William McKinley

#22. We all have our hobbies," Kaden replied. He could have been discussing farming techniques.

Brian Staveley

#23. I was impressed by a program called New Roots, which helps women refugees from countries in conflict to start new lives in the U.S. by farming. They are trained in a four-year program, at the end of which New Roots helps them find their own land to farm and live on.

Rebecca Pidgeon

#24. Farming is repetitive in a rhythmic, cyclical way that is by turns comforting and frustrating; some people find it invigorating, while others flee to the city and never look back.

Samantha Johnson

#25. Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming.

Arthur Capper

#26. Networking is more about farming than it is about hunting.

Ivan Misner

#27. Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts until some semblance of common sense and common purpose returns to the public mind.

Gene Logsdon

#28. The real path to natural farming requires that a person know what unaltered nature is, so that he or she can instinctively understand what needs to be done - and what must not be done - to work in harmony with its processes.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#29. Factory farming is the attitude that commodifies sentient life.

Gene Baur

#30. [Dagley] had also taken too much in the shape of muddy political talk, a stimulant dangerously disturbing to his farming conservatism, which consisted in holding that whatever is, is bad, and any change is likely to be worse.

George Eliot

#31. More than any set of practices, factory farming is a mind-set: reduce production costs to the absolute minimum and systematically ignore or "externalize" such costs as environmental degradation, human disease, and animal suffering.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#32. ...responsible, stylish, adventuresome, sometimes silly, comfortable, and difficult subsistence. That's what milking the cow's all about!

Lynn Miller

#33. 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

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

Wendell Berry

#35. 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

#36. We've got a Muslim for a president who hates cowboys, hates cowgirls, hates fishing, hates farming, loves gays and we hate him!

Hank Williams Jr.

#37. My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

Alice Walker

#38. I would not say I am looking for God. Or, I am not looking for God precisely. I am not seeking the God I learned about as a Catholic child, as an 18-year-old novice in a religious community, as an agnostic graduate student, as - but who cares about my disguises? Or God's.

Mary Rose O'Reilley

#39. Music is my way to shine back and express positive vibrations for a common healing. It's similar to farming, or surfing, or yoga. Before world peace, we have to have inner peace and music helps us get there.

Jason Mraz

#40. A robust regional food system that benefits eaters and farmers cannot be achieved in a marketplace that is controlled, top to bottom, by a few firms and that rewards only scale, not innovation, quality, or sustainability.

Wenonah Hauter

#41. Back in 1990, there were fewer than 20 wineries in and around Paso Robles, a farming community midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Most of the wines produced there were rustic, highly tannic and alcoholic, with little charm or finesse.

Robert M. Parker Jr.

#42. I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. I should relish getting my living in a simple, primitive fashion.

Henry David Thoreau

#43. Everybody wants to support his own region and economy and farming. If we can preserve the land and if we can preserve the ocean, we all know, deep inside that we're doing the right thing.

Eric Ripert

#44. Tell them I've gone pig farming in Bolivia.

Leigh Bowery

#45. I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.

Andy Goldsworthy

#46. Humanity must work together to stop deforestation. Every minute over 160 acres of land feel the destructive effects of deforestation. Deforestation causes species to become extinct, disrupts natural habitats, and erodes the top soil of viable farming lands causing drought and famine.

Kambiz Mostofizadeh

#47. Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not only a food-factory but an instrument for self-expression, on which each can play music to his own choosing.

Aldo Leopold

#48. In war, as in farming, you sometimes had to step in and get knee-deep in the muck.

Robert Jordan

#49. We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.

Warren Spector

#50. Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds.

Thomas Jefferson

#51. Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I've yet to find a credible defense of it. But food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#52. Fish farming, even with conventional techniques, changes fish within a few generations from an animal like a wild buffalo or a wildebeest to the equivalent of a domestic cow.

Charles Clover

#53. I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there is an immense amount of suffering in it, and just as we think that the Nazis were wrong to ignore the suffering of their victims, so we are wrong to ignore the sufferings of our victims.

Peter Singer

#54. The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.

Bill Gates

#55. Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.

Gary Miller

#56. I was born and raised in Pawnee City, Nebraska. I lived right next to the sale barn and I raised pigs. My dad was a guidance counselor at Wymore High School. He was also a preacher and did farming as well. We leased out our crop land but had cattle and horses.

Larry The Cable Guy

#57. I'm glad I don't have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don't have control over, like, is it going to rain? All I can say is, god bless the real farmers out there.

Fuzzy Zoeller

#58. The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.

Wendell Berry

#59. [Rachel] was of the opinion that if baseball were any slower it would be called farming

K.B. Spangler

#60. Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

Ruth Asawa

#61. 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

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

Dolores Huerta

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

Michael Pollan

#64. Factory farming is terrible for the environment - not to mention that it's gross. The best thing you can do, if you think about it, is to become a vegetarian and just spread the word. The world would change for the better for animals, humans, and the planet if everyone took that step.

Christofer Drew

#65. If we are bold in our thinking, courageous in accepting new ideas, and willing to work with instead of against our land, we shall find in conservation farming an avenue to the greatest food production the world has ever known - not only for the war, but for the peace that is to follow.

Hugh Hammond Bennett

#66. To identify with others is to see something of yourself in them and to see something of them in yourself
even if the only thing you identify with is the desire to be free from suffering.

Melanie Joy

#67. Baseball is the only sport there is - next to bowling that is.
Luella Lorraine Lavell

Kate Curran

#68. I should like to slip out of the public gaze...to bury myself in the farm and devote my attention to farming and educating." Mahatma Gandhi

Joseph Lelyveld

#69. A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.

S.J Perelman

#70. The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms.

Arthur Capper

#71. At Monticello he planned to return to farming and gardening with passionate zeal.

Jon Meacham

#72. The emergence and spread of virulent strains of avian influenza has been attributed by experts to the intensely overcrowded, unsanitary, and stressful conditions that often characterize large-scale factory farming in industrialized agriculture.

Michael Greger

#73. There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands.

Peter Garrett

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

David Mas Masumoto

#75. Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#76. In the rush to industrialize farming, we've lost the understanding, implicit since the beginning of agriculture, that food is a process, a web of relationships, not an individual ingredient or commodity.

Dan Barber

#77. A gentleman, in his plans, thinks of the Way; he does not think how he is going to make a living. Even farming sometimes has a shortage; and even learning may incidentally bring a salary. A gentleman is concerned with the progress of the Way; he is not anxious about poverty.

Confucius

#78. I tell my students, if you're interested in marine biology or llama farming, follow that string. Yes, it will probably take you a longer time to write that book, but it's not a race. That's another great thing about being a writer: you don't age out.

Debra Dean

#79. Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless - it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or another. Consistency is not required, but engagement with the problem is.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#80. Farming's always been my business.

Howlin' Wolf

#81. The linear, single species idea of farming is an assault on ecological function. Something's going to break down in that system - anything from soil structure, in economics ... but where to start is with true ecological function.

Joel Salatin

#82. 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

#83. New York has an amazing history of farming and fishing that goes right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. At its core are the four seasons, which are distinct, well-established and similar to those in Lyon, where my family lives: when it's snowing in New York, a week later it will be snowing there.

Daniel Boulud

#84. ...from the big tobacco barns there welled forth a fragrance that was for these Kentuckians, the soul of autumn. Oozing out into the sunshine from every crack in the great structures, it exhilarated like an elixir, like a long draught of some rich, spicy wine.

Edith Summers Kelley

#85. I'm not sure that secret goat-farming is the most effective show of defiance.

Francesca Haig

#86. I really like the whole urban farming idea, because I grow my own produce in L.A., and I think it's great to teach people here in Manhattan so they can do the same.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

#87. Neither in theory nor in practice does one farmer in a hundred realize how important it is to cultivate, cultivate, and cultivate.

Albert Howard

#88. My family has spent 400 years farming on the banks of the Rio Grande. We know the value of hard work, love of the community, love for water and land.

Ken Salazar

#89. Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#90. Men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Wendell Berry

#92. Integrative thinkers consider the problem as a whole, rather than breaking it down and farming out the parts.

Pearl Zhu

#93. As my daddy said, soil is the basis of everything.

Michael Lee West

#94. I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#95. If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.

John Maynard Keynes

#96. Organic farming has been shown to provide major benefits for wildlife and the wider environment. The best that can be said about genetically engineered crops is that they will now be monitored to see how much damage they cause.

Prince Charles

#97. Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

Alice Waters

#98. I get superstitious in late summer.

David Mas Masumoto

#99. A new planting is like having another child, requiring patience and sacrifice and a resounding optimism for the future

David Mas Masumoto

#100. So, is there hope for a truly democratic Africa? Long answer: Only if continent-wide improvements in education, human rights and public health are coupled with an aggressive and far-sighted debt-relief program that breaks the cycle of subsistence farming and urban squalor. Short answer: No.

Jon Stewart