Farmers Quotes - Page 31

• No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members.

  Aldo Leopold

  Ties, Stronger, Groups

  Aldo Leopold, J. Baird Callicott, Eric T. Freyfogle (2001). “For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings”, p.189, Island Press

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• A home in the country is what a city man hopes to buy and a farmer hopes to sell.

  Evan Esar

  Country, Home, Men

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• These dust storms.... Poor farmer spent a lifetime fixin' his farm and everything, goes out and looks down at it, and it's up above him.

  Will Rogers

  Dust, Agriculture, Storm

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• BJP is committed to transform the agriculture sector. We want to increase farmer income and the purchasing power of villages.

  Narendra Modi

  Agriculture, Bjp, India

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• We need to make sure the Department of Agriculture is promoting farmers and ranchers.

  Jerry Moran

  Agriculture, Farmers And Ranchers, Needs

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• The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, - a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man. Man is thus metamorphosed into a thing, into many things. The planter, who is Man sent out into the field to gather food, is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry. He sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond, and sinks into the farmer, instead of Man on the farm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Land, Ideas

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.175

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• There's a theory that snoring at night in sleep is a subconscious defence reflex-a warning sound that frightened potential predators away from the mouth of the cave when our lower-paleolithic ancestors huddled in vulnerable sleep. That group of nomads, cameleers, sheep and goat herders, farmers, and guerilla fighters lent credibility to the idea, for they snored so thunderously and with such persistent ferocity through the long, cold night that they would've frightened a pride of ravenous lions into scattering like startled mice.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Sleep, Pride, Night

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• Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard! Heap high the golden corn! No richer gift has Autumn poured From out her lavish horn!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Autumn, Corn, Golden

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.117

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• Tilth is something every farmer can recognize but no scientist can measure.

  Walter Russell

  Scientist

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• Look at our farmers markets today, bursting with heritage breeds and heirloom varieties, foods that were once abundant when we were an agricultural nation, but that we have lost touch with. Bringing all these back helps us connect to our roots, our communities and helps us feed America the proper way.

  Jose Andres

  Roots, America, Community

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• In Southeast Asia the world is understood to be a vast, complex network of interdependent relationships. So when global capitalism makes it impossible for small-time rice farmers to feed their families and make a living, it is a natural thing for anyone in the family who can find an alternative source of income to do so.

  John Burdett

  Income, Alternatives, World

  "Bangkok 8". Book by John Burdett, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2003.

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• We decided long ago that we didn't want Chipotle's success to be tied to the exploitation of animals, farmers, or the environment, but the engagement of our customers.

  Steve Ells

  Animal, Long Ago, Engagement

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• This session of Congress is also to relieve the farmer again, relieve him of any encouragement that he might have received during the last one.

  Will Rogers

  Encouragement, Agriculture, Might

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Rosanne Daryl Thomas's tale of her enchantment by bees is a delight to read. It also contains close observations of the natural world, tales of failure and triumph with the hives, and a stellar cast of characters that includes her daughter, their cats, the hapless Farmer Tom, Pete the crossing guard, and, most important, the Bee Master. Every word tastes sweet as honey.

  Janet Lembke

  Daughter, Sweet, Character

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• The factors that have been holding farmers back are similar to those that threaten other types of growth in Africa. Infrastructure and transport are in many cases quite poor, resulting in the losses of huge amounts of produce.

  Richard Attias

  Loss, Growth, Poor

  "Agriculture, and Africa’s Future" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2013.

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• I can see others in the sunlight; I can see our boats' crews and our athletic young men on the glistening water, or speckled with the moving lights of sunlit leaves; but I myself am always in the shadow looking on. Not unsympathetically, - God forbid! - but looking on alone, much as I looked at Sylvia from the shadows of the ruined house, or looked at the red gleam shining through the farmer's windows, and listened to the fall of dancing feet, when all the ruin was dark that night in the quadrangle.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Moving, Fall

  Charles Dickens (2014). “Hard Times (And Other Stories)”, p.595, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Mr. Bazzard's father, being a Norfolk farmer, would have furiously laid about him with a flail, a pitch-fork, and every agricultural implement available for assaulting purposes, on the slightest hint of his son's having written a play.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Father, Humorous

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Edwin Drood and Miscellaneous”, p.207, Cosimo, Inc.

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• God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed To clothe the nakedness of need,- Where farmer folk in silence meet,- I turn my bell-unsummoned feet; I lay the critic's glass aside, I tread upon my lettered pride, And, lowest-seated, testify To the oneness of humanity; Confess the universal want, And share whatever Heaven may grant. He findeth not who seeks his own, The soul is lost that's saved alone.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Pride, Men, Oneness

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1869). “Among the Hills, and Other Poems”, p.73

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• O farmer, strong farmer!
  You can spend at the fair,
  But your face you must turn
  To your crops and your care

  Padraic Colum

  Strong, Care, Faces

  Padraic Colum (1989). “Selected Poems of Padraic Colum”, p.24, Syracuse University Press

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• Horses raise what the farmer eats and eats what the farmer raises. You can't plow the ground and get gasoline.

  Will Rogers

  Horse, Gasoline, Raises

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• Polo, racing and horse shows all are doing great work to help the farmer and rancher to raise better horses.

  Will Rogers

  Horse, Racing, Farmers And Ranchers

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other.

  Will Rogers

  Agriculture, Trying, Birth Control

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• Im a farmer. I always will be a farmer. When I die, Ill be a farmer. Its something that Ive wanted to do since I was 8 years old. I can tell you also that I see opportunity slipping away for our kids.

  Jon Tester

  Kids, Opportunity, Years

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• [The Democrats] will say that the Reagan administrtion has given benefits to the rich at the expense of the poor - a term that they define broadly to include middle-income people, women, minorities, the aged, the young, farmers, steelworkers, and others.

  Herbert Stein

  People, Income, Minorities

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• George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries.

  Will Rogers

  Engineering, Indulge In, Luxury

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