Farmland Quotes:

One of my greatest pleasures is being on the farmland that's been in the family since 1833.

- Jimmy Carter

source: Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

topic: Pleasure, Greatest Pleasures, Farmland

This is the way to hear music, I think, surrounded by rolling hills and farmlands, under a big sky.

- Michael Lang

topic: Thinking, Sky, Way, Farmland, Rolling Hills

I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.

- Stephen Sprouse

topic: Eight, Mixtures, Towns, Farmland

The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world.

- David Wilkerson

topic: Men, House, Challenges, Farmland

I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.

- Stephen Sprouse

topic: Columbus, Indiana, Kind, Farmland

Growing Greener doesnt produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.

- Ed Rendell

topic: Space, Growing, Produce, Open Spaces, Greener

The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food.

- Wendell Berry

topic: Believe, Cities, Long, Farmland

Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.

- Barbara Kingsolver

source: Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.130, Faber & Faber

topic: Animal, Vegetables, Miracle, Farmland, Good Citizenship

Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting effort leads to a kind of mental dullness and lethargy.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Effort, Mind, Relaxation, Dullness, Farmland

... laws governing pollution tend to move pollutants from one medium to another. So, for example, we scrub SO2 from power plants only to dispose toxic sludge on land. We "clean" water only to disperse toxic-laced solids on farmland or landfills. Pollution control becomes a kind of giant shell game by which we move pollutants between air, water, groundwater, and land.

- David W. Orr

source: David W. Orr (2011). “Hope Is an Imperative: The Essential David Orr”, p.113, Island Press

topic: Moving, Air, Law, Farmland, Pollution Control

Air pollution is a threat to health, especially of older persons. It contributes significantly to the rising rates of chronic respiratory ailments. It stains our cities and towns with ugliness, soiling and corroding whatever it touches. Its damage extends to our forests and farmlands as well. The economic toll for our neglect amounts to billions of dollars each year.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

topic: Years, Cities, Air, Cities And Towns, Farmland

Widely spaced earth-sheltered towns offer sweeping views over the plains. High-speed trains link the communities. Food is grown in the region. Bikeways are everywhere. Nonpolluting hydrogen powers all vehicles. Sunlight and wind generate the hydrogen. Note the earth-covered bridges, the continuous window bands, the wind machines across the farmlands. In this new America, everything is reused, recycled, conserved.

- Malcolm Wells

topic: Views, Wind, Bridges, Farmland, Recycled

I am in fact a hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated).

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: Letter to Deborah Webster, 25 Oct. 1958

topic: Garden, Tree, Dull Days, Farmland

During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy as a model -- all this at a time when literally millions of people were starving to death in the Soviet Union, from a famine in a country with some of the richest farmland in Europe and historically a large exporter of food.

- Thomas Sowell

source: Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.306, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Country, Europe, America, Farmland

You can go back to tulip bulbs in Holland 400 years ago. The human beings going through combinations of fear and greed and all of that sort of thing, their behavior can lead to bubbles. And it may have had and Internet bubble at one time, you've had a farm bubble, farmland bubble in the Midwest which resulted in all kinds of tragedy in the early '80s.

- Howard Warren Buffett

topic: Years, Greed, Tragedy, Farmland

The "developed" nations had given to the "free market" the status of a god, and were sacrificing to it their farmers, farmlands, and communities, their forests, wetlands, and prairies, their ecosystems and watersheds. They had accepted universal pollution and global warming as normal costs of doing business.

- Wendell Berry

source: Wendell Berry (2001). “In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World”

topic: Sacrifice, Ecosystems, Community, Watersheds, Developed Nations

Jungles and grasslands are the logical destinations, and towns and farmland the labyrinths that people have imposed between them sometime in the past. I cherish the green enclaves accidentally left behind.

- E. O. Wilson

topic: Past, People, Labyrinth, Farmland, Grasslands

I have a cottage near Aldeburgh, and from there its a sturdy two-mile walk across farmland to an empty beach, where I collect hag stones and run around with the dog. Im a keen walker, and I love Suffolks big skies.

- Diana Quick

topic: Running, Dog, Beach, Sturdy, Farmland

You could take all the gold that's ever been mined, and it would fill a cube 67 feet in each direction. For what that's worth at current gold prices, you could buy all -- not some -- all of the farmland in the United States. Plus, you could buy 10 Exxon Mobils, plus have $1 trillion of walking-around money. Or you could have a big cube of metal. Which would you take? Which is going to produce more value?

- Warren Buffett

topic: Feet, Gold, Cubes, Farmland, Gold Price

Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of the sands. On solvent farmlands lupines do not even grow, much less collect a daily rainbow of jewels.

- Aldo Leopold

topic: Real, June, Jewels, Farmland

Each summer, for example, nitrogen and phosphate washing from farmlands in the Mississippi Valley enter the Gulf of Mexico, creating a massive algal bloom covering some 16,000 square kilometers. As the blooms die off, this area-roughly the size of New Jersey-is so deprived of oxygen that no fish survive.

- Lester R. Brown

source: Lester R. Brown, Michael Renner (2014). “Vital Signs 1999-2000: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future”, p.25, Routledge

topic: Nitrogen, Farmland, Gulf Of Mexico

I am in fact a Hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated), but detest French cooking; I like, and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats. I am fond of mushrooms (out of a field); have a very simple sense of humor (which even my appreciative critics find tiresome); I go to bed late and get up late (when possible). I do not travel much.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: Letter to Deborah Webster, 25 Oct. 1958

topic: Simple, Garden, Mushrooms, Dull Days, Farmland

Acknowledging the physical realities of our planet does not mean a dismal future of endless sacrifice. In fact, acknowledging these realities is the first step in dealing with them. We can meet the resource problems of the world - water, food, minerals, farmlands, forests, overpopulation, pollution - if we tackle them with courage and foresight.

- Jimmy Carter

source: United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Jimmy Carter”

topic: Future, Mean, Sacrifice, Overpopulation, Farmland

Im from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and farmland. We had that sense of adventure you get from growing up around old farmhouses and lazy, rolling hills, you know?

- Hilarie Burton

topic: Growing Up, Adventure, Virginia, West Virginia, Farmland