Farming Quotes - Page 10

• I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding pieces of abandoned land and caring for them by hand.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  War, Caring, Hands

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• I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award.

  Rick Perry

  School, Awards, Texas

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• I truly don't judge other people's actions. But I think that factory farming is an abomination.

  Moby

  Thinking, People, Judging

  Source: thequietus.com

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• My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.

  David Bowie

  Mother, Father, Class

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: 'We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. 2002.

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• The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.

  Bill Gates

  Energy, Use, Want

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• We were just country people. All my grandfathers had farms. They had chickens, cattle and tried to get by farming, for the most part.

  Jeff Sessions

  Country, People, Grandfather

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• The real path to natural farming requires that a person know what unaltered nature is, so that he or she can instinctively understand what needs to be done - and what must not be done - to work in harmony with its processes.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Real, Needs, Done

  "Masanobu Fukuoka: Japanese Organic Farmer". Interview with Larry Korn, www.motherearthnews.com. July/August 1982.

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• Farming, from an outside perspective, can be viewed as a romantic, free and off-the-grid life, but the constant work of it means a routine you must follow or everyone dies.

  Amy Pietz

  Mean, Perspective, Routine

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging. And I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into it when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.

  Ann Voskamp

  Book, Writing, Kids

  Source: churchleaders.com

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• Two hundred years ago, we were all busy farming and we all had a role to play. The home was a unit of production. We made food and all the things we needed, we took care of our kids and were connected to purpose in our evolution. When the Industrial Revolution came along, it took away a lot of the work the men had done.

  Peter Buffett

  Kids, Home, Men

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

  Peter Singer

  Modern, Gross, Notion

  "Chew the Right Thing". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May 3, 2006.

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• The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging.

  Ann Voskamp

  Book, Home, Writing

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

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• Old models of farming with chemicals and credit mostly favored privileged men.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Men, Credit, Chemicals

  Interview with Karen Brown, blog.etsy.com. July 23, 2013.

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• China is now urging citizens to eat less meat. Factory farming comes with immense costs to a society, and Chinese leaders are starting to recognize its implications for water use, the efficient use of grains and other food resources, and human health concerns.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Water, Leader, Chinese

  "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

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• We also look at farming. Are we making sure that we're getting the latest seeds out to women so they can get a bigger yield off of their farms? A new type of seed that gets out to a man, let's say, that's drought resistant - because, of course, the rains are changing in Africa with climate change - if you don't put it in the hands of a woman, she won't necessarily get it. We look at breaking down all those barriers.

  Melinda Gates

  Rain, Men, Yield

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• Both my best and worst memories are of my time in Nicaragua. The experience as a whole was totally redeeming and amazing. It sounds so cliche, but I don't care because I'm saying that from the heart. I stayed with a host family and went back to the same kind of rural farming village outside of Managua.

  Eden Sher

  Memories, Heart, Nicaragua

  "New York tops the list for young actress". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, www.chicagotribune.com. May 17, 2011.

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• I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there is an immense amount of suffering in it, and just as we think that the Nazis were wrong to ignore the suffering of their victims, so we are wrong to ignore the sufferings of our victims.

  Peter Singer

  Thinking, Holocaust, Suffering

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• I tell my students, if you're interested in marine biology or llama farming, follow that string. Yes, it will probably take you a longer time to write that book, but it's not a race. That's another great thing about being a writer: you don't age out.

  Debra Dean

  Book, Writing, Marine

  Source: therumpus.net

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• An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating

  Wendell Berry

  Cooking, Mind, Fields

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.241, Counterpoint

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• One thing I've learned from my short time trying to be a farmer is that our farmers have to be the bravest, most optimistic people in the world. To go back to the land year after year, after what nature throws at them and the world economy does to their income, takes a special kind of person.

  Sara Henderson

  Optimistic, Years, Land

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• Analysis of President Bush's tax plan has revealed that several elaborate tricks and gimmicks were used to make it look like a $1.35 trillion cut, but in reality it's going to be closer to costing $1.8 trillion. Critics claim it's math so fuzzy, you have to squint to see our nation's future of subsistence farming and post-apocalyptic roving motorcycle gangs.

  Jon Stewart

  Cutting, Math, Reality

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• Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Ninety Nine, Land

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

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• Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.

  Edwin Markham

  Hoe, Age, World

  'The Man with the Hoe' (1899)

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• A paradigm shift, where, in addition to, physical inputs for farming, a focused emphasis placed on knowledge inputs, can be a promising way forward. This knowledge based approach will bring immense returns particularly in Rainfed and Dryland farming areas.

  Pratibha Patil

  Rain, Way Forward, Land

  Pratibha Patil's Speech on the Eve of Demitting Office of the President, pib.nic.in. July 24, 2012.

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• Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by unbearably painful crises that made most people wish they could recoil into the past.

  Yanis Varoufakis

  Past, People, Wish

  Yanis Varoufakis (2015). “The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy”, p.29, Zed Books Ltd.

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