Quotes About Rural

Her people undoubtedly drank from clay jugs and hollered for Paw when the vittles were ready — so who was she to advise me on anything?

Given all the time I've spent in the country, you'd think I might have seen a calf being born, but this was a first for me. The biggest surprise was how nonplussed the expectant mother was. For a while she lay flat on the grass, panting. Then she got up and began grazing, still with those feet sticking out. "Really?" I said to her. "You can't go five minutes without eating?

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I adore Dartmoor, where I grew up, and the Cotswolds are amazing.

I grew up in an agricultural family, and I never distanced myself from where the food comes from. I think it's quite natural.

Agriculture is in my heart.

Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information.

La falta de vida social es uno de los inconvenientes de la vida rural. Cuando no se está obligado a hacer por el prójimo esos pequeños sacrificios exigidos por la urbanidad y el arreglo personal, se acaba por adquirir la costumbre de no preocuparse por los demás.

When a Parisian drops into the country he is cut off from all his usual habits, and soon feels the dragging hours, no matter how attentive his friends may be to him. Therefore, because it is so impossible to prolong in a tete-a-tete conversations that are soon exhausted, the master and mistress of a country-house are apt to say, calmly, "You will be terribly bored here.

thought of what Mama liked to say: to find this kind of love, you have to enter deep country.

to find this kind of love, you have to enter deep country.

In Rome you long for the country; in the country—oh inconstant!—you praise the distant city to the stars.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

I was sent to a teacher called Alf Adamson, who had a country dance band that toured the Borders.

Craig Johnson

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There's a big difference between needs and requirements for grid-based electricity versus those for distributed rural homes or remote locations, or even rooftop solar, where photovoltaics do OK. The more economical a technology is, the faster we'll see adoption.

I spent a week in Wensleydale with a real vet called Jack Watkinson, living with him and going out on calls at 4 A. M. Sticking my hand up cows' bums became second nature. I got really good at it.

When I was really little, I wanted to be a vet. My four older siblings and I grew up on my dad's beef farm near Bolton, and I loved all our animals.

As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.

In rural North Carolina, you can get lots of great advice about how to clean and quarter a deer carcass, but we didn't really have anyone to ask for video advice, so we just kept learning through trial and error.

There are tough elements of rural life of course, but I didn't put them in my videos.

You think he should turn to dairying and livestock," Kathleen said. "It would be easier and more profitable than trying to farm lowland clay." "You may be right," she told him ruefully. "But in this part of England, breeding livestock is not considered as respectable as working the land." "What the devil is the difference? Either way, one ends up shoveling manure.

You know you're from Arizona when you feed your chickens ice cubes to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs.