Quotes About Industrial Farming

#1. Not just the industrial farming but the sprawl, the sprawl, the sprawl. Low-density development is the worst. And SUVs everywhere, snowmobiles everywhere, Jet Skis everywhere, ATVs everywhere, two-acre lawns everywhere. The goddamned green monospecific chemical-drenched lawns.

Jonathan Franzen

#2. I'm very hard on myself because I know how good my body can look. Dorie has taught me to use less weight and more repetition so I don't become too muscular.

Donna Dixon

#3. he asked, in a more tentative tone, "What's the

John Le Carre

#4. 'Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.

Theodore Bikel

#5. The carbon fuels industry-big oil and coal-have a 50-year lease on the Republican Party and they are drilling it for everything it's worth.

Al Gore

#6. Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.

Herbert Spencer

#7. inclusion + engagement = execution muscle

Susan Scott

#8. An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent industrial agricultural system. And to shift away from that into an agriculture of peace is what organic farming is doing.

Vandana Shiva

#9. As much as we might like to break, we're really only made to bend.

Cody McFadyen

#10. Now it was growing late again, and cooler, which the nurse found disorienting. It felt as though her entire life had been lived from dusk to dawn ever since she learned of Phillip, only tiptoeing around the edges of sunset or sunrise, and sleeping or traveling all day.

Cherie Priest

#11. Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no industrial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by unbearably painful crises that made most people wish they could recoil into the past.

Yanis Varoufakis

#12. I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

Wislawa Szymborska