Farming Quotes

There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding...

With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse

An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating

Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.

To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.

My label is just "good farming", which isn't something you can put on a t-shirt.

To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth.

If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation.

A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.

Please. Put the gun down and we'll talk. A beautiful woman holding a small cannon plays hell with my concentration. Christovao (Chris) Santos, Sanctuary

Only a very foolish person would think that specialized knowledge is important in everything apart from agriculture and farming

To identify with others is to see something of yourself in them and to see something of them in yourself--even if the only thing you identify with is the desire to be free from suffering.

Bad weather never stopped anyone from reaping a good harvest.

The ripen fruit is for a sacred season.

When we destroy the fertile lands, we destroy our own good life!

There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm choose for love.

It's not the deprivations of winter that get you, or the damp of spring, but the no-man's land between.

Check your environment and be sure that it is supportive. Some environments do not support progress. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not fertile lands for a farmer’s dream seeds. Change location.

We have been living through a time of sorrow. Our seed remains seed. Our nostrils are dusty.

Someday men will learn to irrigate and spread fertilizer instead of praying for fertility.

I could go to a dozen houses, scrape away the dirt, and find his footprints, but my own prints evaporated before I ever looked back.

Farmers facing lower prices have only one option if they want to be able to maintain their standard of living, pay their bills, and service their debt, and that is to produce more [corn]

Food and medicine are not two different things: they are the front and back of one body. Chemically grown vegetables may be eaten for food, but they cannot be used as medicine.

A new planting is like having another child, requiring patience and sacrifice and a resounding optimism for the future

Both of them loved the earth and the things that grew in it.

Green meant water, green patches meant farmers and farmers meant agriculture. Agriculture meant food to eat and food to sell, which meant towns and transport. They had reached civilization.

We got a saying around here about our corn, ‘it grows knee-high by the Fourth of July.

These memories are part of my heritage, the fabric of my personality, and as real to me as the land itself.

The cost to reconnect animals to live in natural settings without human support is a debt that many animals in transition must honor with their lives.

Studying wine taught me that there was a very big difference between soil and dirt: dirt is to soul what zombies are to humans. Soil is full of life, while dirt is devoid of it.

Farming is a most senseless pursuit a mere laboring in a circle. You sow that you may reap and then you reap that you may sow. Nothing ever comes of it.

Some people tell us that there ain't no Hell But they never farmed so how can they tell?

The farmer works the soil The agriculturist works the farmer.

Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of civilization.

Even though I hated doing farming and wanted to just get out of the village, I would work from 5 in the morning till 5 in the evening.

Since I was a boy - born into a farming family in Bonaire, GA - I've had agriculture running through my veins.

The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems.

I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime.

I have been a long-term environmental advocate for the agriculture industry. I have particularly tried to push carbon farming or carbon sequestration.