Subsistence Farming Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.

Hosea Ballou

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

Lynn Miller

#5. Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous.

Joe Dunthorne

#6. Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

Joyce Grenfell

#7. Because when I said I wanted to touch the moon you took my hand, held me close, and taught me how to fly.

Tahereh Mafi

#8. One cricket said to another -
come, let us be ridiculous, and say love!
love love love love love
let us be absurd, woman, and say hate!
hate hate hate hate hate
and then let us be angelic
and say nothing.

Conrad Aiken