quotes about Farming
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I'm very familiar with the importance of dairy farming in Wisconsin. I've spent the night on a dairy farm here in Wisconsin. If I'm entrusted with the presidency, you'll have someone who is very familiar with what the Wisconsin dairy industry is all about.
-- Al Gore -
A farm is like a very large and extended baby. It takes a great deal of time and very little mentality.
-- Anne Bosworth GreeneSource : Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”
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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.
-- Anthony HeadSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.
-- Bharati MukherjeeSource : Bharati Mukherjee (2007). “Jasmine”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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Farming is a profession of hope
-- Brian BrettSource : Brian Brett (2009). “Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life”, p.16, Greystone Books Ltd
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Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
-- Cato the Elder -
Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England.
-- Charles SturtSource : Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of southern Australia during ... 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831: with observations on New South Wales”, p.70
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So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.
-- Daryl Hannah -
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Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?
-- Dolores Huerta -
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
-- E. B. White -
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
-- Edward DahlbergSource : Edward Dahlberg (1964). “Alms for oblivion: essays”
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One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all on my own.
-- Emiliano Zapata -
Factory farming is the attitude that commodifies sentient life.
-- Gene BaurSource : "Dispatch: Living the Farm Sanctuary Life With Gene Baur" by Miriam Ava, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2015.
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Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.
-- George Crabbe -
Networking is more about farming than it is about hunting.
-- Ivan MisnerSource : "MLMs in BNI". "BNI Podcast" with Priscilla Rice, www.bnipodcast.com. July 27, 2011.
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How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.
-- Jane Smiley -
The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.
-- Kevin Nealon -
You have stirred the soil with your plow, my friend. It will never be the same again.
-- Martha OstensoSource : Martha Ostenso (1943). “O River, Remember”
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Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation...o f human beings!
-- Masanobu Fukuoka -
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.
-- Mike Watt -
Improving Africa's farming sector would have multiple positive outcomes for African people.
-- Richard AttiasSource : "Agriculture, and Africa’s Future" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2013.
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Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming
-- Scott BaioSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding ...
-- Vita Sackville-West -
With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse
-- W. H. Auden -
My label is just "good farming", which isn't something you can put on a t-shirt.
-- Wendell Berry -
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
-- Wendell Berry -
There is a very strong deal for our farmers to start with. So from the export of farming, which is being looked at to make up some of the lost ground from the resources boom, to just about every area.
-- Andrew RobbSource : Source: www.abc.net.au
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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.
-- Novella Carpenter -
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There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule].
-- Thein Sein -
I grew up doing farm work, and there's a deep connection between the demands of farming and the demands of art creation. My sense of space and material has a lot to do with having been a chicken-killer and working with cows.
-- Carolee SchneemannSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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I like to hunt. After baseball, I'll go back and buy some land and do some farming.
-- Jeremy Bonderman