Quotes About Farming

If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable.

A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop... it would diversify its crops to suit the earth

Approaches to growing food that align with nature changed human relationships.

The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it.

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.

If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can pray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn.

The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed.

There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.

Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.

Carry on carry on for the men and boys are gone But the furrow shan't lie fallow while the women carry on.

If a man plants melons he will reap melons if he sows beans he will reap beans.

What farmers could profitably raise at any given location would depend on two key variables: how much people in the city were willing to pay for different crops, and how much it cost to transport those crops to market.

I looked at my father and looked at those dry fields [in Malawi]. It was the future I couldn't accept.

Even in Jericho, the oldest-known farming village, the walls, which were once believed to have been fortifications, are now thought to have been an early form of flood control.

In reality, there's every reason to believe that farming 'reached' California just as soon as it reached anywhere else in North America. It's just that (despite a work ethic that valorized strenuous labour, and a regional exchange system that would have allowed information about innovations to spread rapidly) people there rejected the practice as definitively as they did slavery.

I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.

Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

Agriculture specialists say our farm production is increasing and will go on increasing. Thank God.

I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.

Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.

A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.

Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

I am quite content to come home and go to Farming, be a select Man, and owe no Man any Thing but good Will. There I can get a little health and teach my Boys to be Lawyers.

Once you get the government involved in agriculture you'll have nothing but problems and expenses.