Top 28 Quotes About Organic Farming
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Organic farming appealed to me because it involved searching for and discovering nature's pathways, as opposed to the formulaic approach of chemical farming. The appeal of organic farming is boundless; this mountain has no top, this river has no end.
Eliot Coleman
#4. If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.
Nina Fedoroff
#5. If we pursue organic farming as our healthy food style, we can bring down cost of treatment to a great extent.
Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi
#6. With wrong farming methods, we turn fertile land into desert. Unless we go back to organic farming and save the soil, there is no future.
Jaggi Vasudev
#7. Far from being a "luxury for the rich," organic farming may turn out to be a necessity not just for the poor, but for everyone.
Raj Patel
#9. There are 6.6 billion people on the planet today. With organic farming we could only feed four billion of them. Which two billion would volunteer to die?
Norman Borlaug
#10. Organic farming is about buying out of a corrupt, illegal and dishonest system.
Jerry Brown
#11. 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
#12. So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.
Daryl Hannah
#13. 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
#14. My grandma's the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she's doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking lot!
Jeff Foxworthy
#15. I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What led me to drawing was seeing so much self-important, pretentious, conceptual-type art in university. I wanted to reject that by making quick, fun art.
Neil Farber
#16. Gray Man. The Gray Man was created by Sarah Orne Jewett and appeared in "The Gray Man" (A White Heron and Other Stories, 1886). Jewett also created Lady Ferry. "The Gray Man" is one of Jewett's best supernatural short stories, which means it is very good indeed.
Jess Nevins
#17. There are many ways of encouraging people to make life better other than joining a political party. Politics with a small 'p' isn't just about darkened committee rooms, endless meetings - it is about giving people the right to make decisions about our lives.
John Reid
#18. From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and had a huge, well kept garden with an octagonal chicken house in the corner.
Joel Salatin
#19. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
John Green
#20. Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster.
Stewart Brand
#21. I'm a mess right now I can't eat can't sleep
Bills are piling high ain't worked in three weeks
Ain't bathed can't shave cause my heart is so tender like living in a blender
I'm shaken and I'm stirred
Anthony Hamilton
#22. My heart may be black but it was still capable of heart failure.
Abbi Glines
#23. The only reason why you should do a film is because it creatively carbonates you and gets you going. If you're doing it for any other reason, you've lost sight of why you're acting in the first place.
Graham Phillips
#25. Many organic practices simply make sense, regardless of what overall agricultural system is used. Far from being a quaint throwback to an earlier time, organic agriculture is proving to be a serious contender in modern farming and a more environmentally sustainable system over the long term.
David Suzuki
#27. Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#28. Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
Benjamin Disraeli