Farming Quotes

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

Networking is more about farming than it is about hunting.

Meditation is like farming... the right soil is required to grow anything, nothing will grow if the soil is polluted by striving or pushing too hard.

You need bad things to make good things. It’s like with farming— if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of manure.

What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.

A farmer is always going to be rich next year.

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.

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

Factory farming, of course, does not cause all the world's problems, but is is remarkable just how many of them intersect there.

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.

If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

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

Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.

Trade is 10 times as old as farming.

Outlaw embryo farming, but allow using surplus embryos.

Improving Africa's farming sector would have multiple positive outcomes for African people.

Farming, from an outside perspective, can be viewed as a romantic, free and off-the-grid life, but the constant work of it means a routine you must follow or everyone dies.

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

The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging.

A farm is like a very large and extended baby. It takes a great deal of time and very little mentality.

Somerset has a wonderful wildness about it - it hasn't been tamed. This is farming country, and there's a realness here - I love it.

A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.

And I have to tell you, as tough as farming is, the idea of farming when you’re losing money year after year... that’s not life even, that’s like death. That’s eternal damnation.

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.

My job as a comedian is to heighten awareness about locally grown produce, fight factory farming, and promote euthanasia, but in a funny way.

A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.

From my standpoint, coca should be neither destroyed nor completely legalized. Farming should be controlled by the state and by the coca farmers' unions.

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.

Old models of farming with chemicals and credit mostly favored privileged men.

Farming -- a vocation accursed of heaven, since one never saw a millionaire involved in it.

Good farming, clear thinking, right living.

We have to grow our food differently because industrial farming will soon end. That means growing more food locally on smaller farms with more human attention.

In the decades to come, the successful places will tend to be the smaller traditional towns and cities with viable farming hinterlands.

How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.

We were just country people. All my grandfathers had farms. They had chickens, cattle and tried to get by farming, for the most part.

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

I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs.

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.

A technological revolution on the farm has led to an output explosion--but we have not yet learned to harness that explosion usefully, while protecting our farmers' right to full parity income

The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for cruelty to our own kind.

You have stirred the soil with your plow, my friend. It will never be the same again.

Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved.

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

I truly don't judge other people's actions. But I think that factory farming is an abomination.

Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure.

Even if you live in New York City, you can have a little basil plant in your window, and that could be considered urban farming.

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.

Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.

President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois.