Quotes About Husbandry

#1. Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

Henry Ward Beecher

#2. If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals.
Can we tell a new story?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#3. Muse of poetry, come to his aid, I thought. Could the man produce one more metaphor of husbandry? He seemed to be trying.
"Green wood," I suggested, but even he sensed that there was something unfortunate about a metaphor for a king in which you dry out your royalty before you set fire to it.

Megan Whalen Turner

#4. I could not say exactly how Mrs. H managed to catch pregnant. Mayhap Mr. H fired a baby into her from Peru with a better gun than mine. Probably he came home and performed his husbandry and left again before the sun could surprise him at it.

Catherynne M Valente

#5. The trials of the saint are a divine husbandry, by which he grows and brings forth abundant fruit.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#6. Solid ground beneath his feet, dirt under his fingernails, the husbandry of growing things, bulbs and roots, seeds and shoots, this had been his world.

Salman Rushdie

#7. Well suited to those with large shoulders and feet like spades, swimming enjoyed a boost in popularity in Victorian times when, due to advancements in water husbandry, we were able to domesticate H2O, trapping large amounts of it in four-sided pits or 'pools'. I

Alan Partridge

#8. There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out.

William Shakespeare

#9. And if we ask what are the cultural resources that can inform and sustain a proper creaturely and stewardly awareness of the lives in a farmer's keeping, I believe that we will find them gathered under the heading of husbandry.

Wendell Berry

#10. Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

Thomas Tusser

#12. There are no bad plants or bad men. There is only bad husbandry.

Victor Hugo

#13. Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.

Thomas Tusser

#14. Never does Nature separate the animal and vegetable worlds. This is a mistake she cannot endure, and of all the errors which modern agriculture has committed this abandonment of mixed husbandry has been the most fatal.

Albert Howard

#15. We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.

Winston Churchill

#16. Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest.

Thomas Tusser

#17. Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

William Shakespeare

#18. By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.

Henry David Thoreau

#19. All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.

Henry Ward Beecher

#20. When colleges, both within the Hudson Valley and throughout the country, encouraged women to do little beyond attaining their Mrs. degree in Husbandry, Annandale offered rigorous and prestigious degrees irrespective of gender.

Thomm Quackenbush

#21. No apprenticeship has ever been thought necessary to qualify for husbandry, the great trade of the country. After what are called the fine arts, and the liberal professions, however, there is perhaps no trade which requires so great a variety of knowledge and experience.

Adam Smith

#22. There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of a sick landscape. We tilt windmills in behalf of conservation in convention halls and editorial offices, but on the back forty we disclaim even owning a lance.

Aldo Leopold

#23. Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production.

David Ricardo

#24. Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry

James Allen

#25. Agricultural husbandry essentially maintains the balance of bound nitrogen.

Fritz Haber

#26. Thus does a man garner in the sweet and bitter fruitage of his own husbandry.

James Allen

#27. In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#28. I was never a keeper of sheep

Alberto Caeiro

#29. Necessity can set me helpless on my back, but she cannot keep me there; nor can four walls limit my vision.

Margaret Barber

#30. Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has been; In its unfading flowers I hear the bright bee hum; Prithee, my brother, Into my garden come!

Emily Dickinson

#31. Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: 'Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue'.

Idries Shah

#32. But experience had taught her that such arguments failed. You cannot tell people to take into account what they do not wish to know. She

Anne Perry

#33. Appreciation and enjoyment of the creatures are the hallmark of God's dominion and therefore the standard by which our own attempt to exercise dominion must be judged.

Ellen F. Davis