Quotes about Farming

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A farm includes the passion of the farmer's heart, the interest of the farm's customers, the biological activity in the — Joel Salatin, Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
A farm regulated to production of raw commodities is not a farm at all. It is a temporary blip until the land is used up — Joel Salatin, Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth. — Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation. — Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud. — Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Speechless and very nearly panting, she fell back against the wall with a thump, knowing that if she lived to be ninety, — Sharon K. Garner
Please. Put the gun down and we'll talk. A beautiful woman holding a small cannon plays hell with my concentration. Chri — Sharon K. Garner
Farming is a profession of hope — Brian Brett
A farmer friend of mine told me recently about a busload of middle school children who came to his farm for a tour. The — Joel Salatin, Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
Only a very foolish person would think that specialized knowledge is important in everything apart from agriculture and — Sunday Adelaja
Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education. — Alice Waters
Awake! arise! the hour is late! Angels are knocking at thy door!They are in haste and cannot wait, And once departed com — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that is the — Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly — Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals
Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healt — Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals
As Gill says, "every man is called to give love to the work of his hands. Every man is called to be an artist." The smal — Wendell Berry, Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
I would not say I am looking for God. Or, I am not looking for God precisely. I am not seeking the God I learned about a — Mary Rose O'Reilley, The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd
What to wear on a Minnesota farm? The older farmers I know wear brown polyester jumpsuits, like factory workers. The you — Mary Rose O'Reilley, The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd
To identify with others is to see something of yourself in them and to see something of them in yourself--even if the on — Melanie Joy, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others
One cannot help feeling that some alternative occupation—lettuce farming, say—would offer somewhat less of a risk of bei — Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic