Quotes About Farming

India's villages were not self-reliant republics that lived in blissful isolation. They were networked and connected, and it was the destruction of Indian industry that forced people to retreat and focus on farming

The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal.

the food movement needs people who can do the dirty work: hunt wild boar, gut deer, eat invasive species, try insects, raise animals the right way, and pay for ethically raised meat. That role falls to us.

There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources.

The Grow Biointensive method is especially important for areas with scarce water.

the weather is such as I would favour if I were a potato-grower – or, more dubiously, if I were a potato.

The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to eat.

Organic farming appealed to me because it involved searching for and discovering nature's pathways, as opposed to the formulaic approach of chemical farming. The appeal of organic farming is boundless; this mountain has no top, this river has no end.

Only exploitation under various systems all claiming to be different, but all amounting to the farming of the many to make wealthy the few. Serfdoms and indenturehood and chattel slavery.

It is unfortunate but true that the proof that there are rocks in the field is usually the fact that we have just hit them with the plow.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

If prices drop, we have to protect farmers from distress; if prices rise, we should be ready to pay market rates.

It's become more readily apparent that we need to be growing our own food and growing more things organically.

My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.

My earliest memory was going to my grandma's house, milking the cows, and collecting the eggs from the chickens.

My grandparents were always farmers.

I may have seemed like things quieted down a bit once we all figured out how to farm, because farming begets society and society develops laws, and laws enforce peace in the interest of the greater good. But society is just another kind of tribe and it eventually bumps into a larger one, and there's more violence, only then it's called war.

Dagley] had also taken too much in the shape of muddy political talk, a stimulant dangerously disturbing to his farming conservatism, which consisted in holding that whatever is, is bad, and any change is likely to be worse.

We've gotten so good at growing food that we've gone, in a few generations, from nearly half of Americans living on farms to 2 percent. We no longer think about how the wonderful things in the grocery store got there, and we'd like to go back to what we think is a more natural way.

If I wasn't acting, I would own a farm. Not like growing crops but maybe have a few animals like cows, and maybe an alpaca or a llama. I would chop wood all day. I would make a living doing that; it's, like, an idealistic scenario for me. It's very contrary to my upbringing, but maybe that's the appeal to it.

Around 4000BC, the Mesolithic, hunter-gatherer way of life here gave way to a more settled, farming existence. Those Neolithic people built wooden trackways across the salt marshes and reed beds.

We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week.

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.

We've got nine generations of farmers in my family, in Warwickshire. And I do feel connected to being a farmer's son. There was a time when I didn't, when I rebelled against it, but there's certainly that sort of work ethic within me.