Farming Quotes

Awake! arise! the hour is late! Angels are knocking at thy door!They are in haste and cannot wait, A...

It is a rule in paleontology that ornamentation and complication precede extinction. And our mutatio...

Et supper?" Foote asked."No, sir," Stoner answered.Mrs. Foote crooked an index finger at him and pad...

Fast rather than slow, more rather than less--this flashy "development" is linked directly to societ...

In my opinion, if 100% of the people were farming it would be ideal. If each person were given one q...

I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and ...

Before researchers become researchers they should become philosophers. They should consider what the...

Food and medicine are not two different things: they are the front and back of one body. Chemically ...

When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence o...

The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of huma...

In olden times there were warriors, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants. Agriculture was said to be cl...

If 22 bushels (1,300 pounds) of rice and 22 bushels of winter grain are harvested from a quarter acr...

Farmers facing lower prices have only one option if they want to be able to maintain their standard ...

More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply wo...

A paradigm shift, where, in addition to physical inputs for farming, a focused emphasis placed on kn...

The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people......

When Geoffrey was away, the goat often took himself off. He had soon got the goats at Granny’s cotta...

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God if He ever had a chosen people whose bre...

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most indepe...

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

Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are no...

At every point in our food economy, present conditions remaining, we must expect to come to a time w...

As Gill says, "every man is called to give love to the work of his hands. Every man is called to be ...

A farmer, as one of his farmer correspondents once wrote to Liberty Hyde Bailey, is "a dispenser of ...

Why do farmers farm, given their economic adversities on top of the many frustrations and difficulti...

Through my history's despiteand ruin, I have cometo its remainder, and herehave made the beginningof...

Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no industrial revoluti...

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community t...

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast ...

This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mist...

For about 48 weeks of the year an asparagus plant is unrecognizable to anyone except an asparagus gr...

It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gat...

Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tilla...

Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour...