Crops Quotes - Page 10

Why don't you go on west to California? There's work there, and it never gets cold. Why, you can reach out anywhere and pick an orange. Why, there's always some kind of crop to work in. Why don't you go there?

John Steinbeck

California, Orange, Goes On

John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.27, Hamilton Books

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GATHERING LEAVES Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a great noise Of rustling all day Like rabbit and deer Running away. But the mountains I raise Elude my embrace, Flowing over my arms And into my face. I may load and unload Again and again Till I fill the whole shed, And what have I then? Next to nothing for weight, And since they grew duller From contact with earth, Next to nothing for color. Next to nothing for use. But a crop is a crop, And who's to say where The harvest shall stop?

Robert Frost

Running, Light, Color

Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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And when that crop grew, and was harvested, no man had crumbled a hot clod in his fingers and let the earth sift past his fingertips. No man had touched the seed, or lusted for the growth. Men ate what they had not raised, had no connection with the bread. The land bore under iron, and under iron gradually died; for it was not loved or hated, it had no prayers or curses.

John Steinbeck

Prayer, Men, Past

John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.29, Hamilton Books

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How much courage does it take to fire up your tractor and plow under a crop you spent six or seven years growing? How much courage to go on and do that after you've spent all that time finding out how to prepare the soil and when to plant and how much to water and when to reap? How much to just say, "I have to quit these peas. Peas are no good for me, I better try corn or beans.

Stephen King

Fire, Years, Water

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Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.

Joseph Conrad

Life, Regret, Knowledge

Joseph Conrad (2006). “Heart of Darkness and Other Stories”, p.120, Collector's Library

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Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.

Terry Pratchett

Good Luck, Science, Magic

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Your servant here, he has been told to say it clear, to say it cold: It's over, it ain't going any further And now the wheels of heaven stop you feel the devil's riding crop Get ready for the future: it is murder

Leonard Cohen

Heaven, Devil, Riding

Song: The Future, Album: The Future, 1992

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As a physician, I recommend nutritious hemp seeds and oil to anyone interested in maintaining a healthy diet. Everyone will benefit when American farmers can grow this amazing crop once again.

Andrew Weil

Marijuana, Oil, Healthy

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If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate art of handling ideas. Psychology is now able to tell us with reasonable assurance that the most influential obstacle to freedom of thought and to new ideas is fear; and fear which can with inimitable art disguise itself as caution, or sanity, or reasoned skepticism, or on occasion even as courage.

Wilfred Trotter

Art, Freedom, Hero

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...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not begging at the welfare office. They are not, like many of their employers, lobbying the halls of Congress with their gold plated tin cups asking to be paid for not growing crops. They are trying to do it in the way that millions of other Americans have shown is the right way-organization, unionism, collective bargaining.

Cesar Chavez

Organization, Office, Trying

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Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He purposeth a crop.

Samuel Rutherford

Soul, Lord, Should

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Bluebell had been saying that he knew the men hated us for raiding their crops and gardens, and Toadflax answered, 'That wasn't why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way. They killed us to suit themselves.

Richard Adams

Men, Garden, Way

Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.133, Oneworld Publications

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Expectations always lead to frustrations. Expectations are the seeds, and frustration is the crop that sooner or later you will have to reap. It is your own doing.

Rajneesh

Frustration, Expectations, Sooner Or Later

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I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if he could get anything for him; who goes to market for his god as it is; on whose farm nothing grows free, whose fields bear no crops, whose meadows no flowers, whose trees no fruits, but dollars.

Henry David Thoreau

God, Flower, Tree

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.261, Penguin

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Women are an enslaved population - the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into committing sexual acts with men that violate integrity because the universal religion - contempt for women - has as its first commandment that women exist purely as sexual fodder for men.

Andrea Dworkin

Children, Integrity, Women

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Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Stephen Covey

Victory, Conservative, Privacy

Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop.

Kurt von Schleicher

Second Chance, Giving, Christian Inspirational

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Plant genetic resources are seldom 'raw materials'; they are the expression of the current wisdom of farmers who have played a highly significant role in the building up of the world's genetic resource base... As is already happening in my country, farmers and national genebanks in developing countries can work together to preserve and expand crop genetic diversity on behalf of all humanity.

Melaku Worede

Country, Expression, Building Up

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There was one rumor that I saw in a magazine saying I was pregnant. I thought that was brilliant and it still crops up now. But it's definitely not true. I can promise you that.

Robert Pattinson

Funny, Promise, Rumor

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The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men.

Reginald Innes Pocock

Men, Land, Poor

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An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far more than the value of the land's crop of corn or wheat.

Denis Hayes

Years, Land, Energy

Denis Hayes (2000). “The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair”, p.40, Island Press

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Take photos with hater n-ggas and crop them. I am not them. I photoshop them out 'cause they don't understand what I'm about.

Drake

Hate, Causes, Photoshop

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Opportunities are a tricky crop, with tiny flowers that are difficult to see and even more difficult to harvest.

Brian Herbert

Flower, Opportunity, Tiny

Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson (2010). “Dune: The Butlerian Jihad”, p.135, Macmillan

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My sense is that the most under-appreciated-and perhaps most under-researched-linkages between forests and food security are the roles that forest-based ecosystem services play in underpinning sustainable agricultural production. Forests regulate hydrological services including the quantity, quality, and timing of water available for irrigation. Forest-based bats and bees pollinate crops. Forests mitigate impacts of climate change and extreme weather events at the landscape scale.

Frances Ford Seymour

Science, Impact, Ecosystems

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The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it. We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries, we must claim its promise. That's how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure-our forests and waterways, our crop lands and snow-capped peaks. That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God. That's what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared.

Barack Obama

God, Jobs, Father

Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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