Farming Quotes - Page 11

There are 6.6 billion people on the planet today. With organic farming we could only feed four billion of them. Which two billion would volunteer to die?

Norman Borlaug

Two, People, Volunteer

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Erotic practices have become diversified. Sex used to be a single-crop farming, like cotton or wheat; now people raise all kinds of things.

Saul Bellow

Sex, Practice, People

1987 More Die of Heartbreak.

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There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light of a little oil lamp, a city girl who knew nothing about farming, sitting on the deel beside that mother in pain, already beginning the birthing process. All around me there was darkness and perfect silence, except for the mother's pain. It was as if the war didn't exist in those hours.

Diet Eman

Girl, Mother, Pain

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An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or sentimentality, sometimes imply that all of their students could one day produce worthwhile literature, rather than frankly acknowledging the troubling truth, anathema to a democratic society, that the great writer, like the contented worker, remains an erratic and anomalous event, immune to the methods of factory farming.

Alain de Botton

Teacher, Writing, Careers

"The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2009.

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To be able to donate money to effect change is extremely exciting. I think I'm very determined and persistent. All the things that you need to deliver a successful business and I think these qualities will be useful in the campaign with the Animal Justice Fund.

Jan Cameron

Successful, Animal, Thinking

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These are things I'd never seen before, they were very disturbing and they were very compelling to try and do something to change the situation for the animals. Farm animals are providing us with the food to stay alive, so I think we really owe them a decent life while they are alive.

Jan Cameron

Animal, Thinking, Trying

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If we are bold in our thinking, courageous in accepting new ideas, and willing to work with instead of against our land, we shall find in conservation farming an avenue to the greatest food production the world has ever known - not only for the war, but for the peace that is to follow.

Hugh Hammond Bennett

War, Thinking, Land

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Somerset has a wonderful wildness about it - it hasn't been tamed. This is farming country, and there's a realness here - I love it.

Anthony Head

Country, Wonderful, Realness

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Trade is 10 times as old as farming.

Matt Ridley

Motivation, Inspiration, Trade

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The idea of hunting and gathering as the best way for life has become quite popular recently, much more populare in some circles than the idea of simple farming as the best way of life. Many of the new primitives regard the beginnings of agriculture as one of humanity's major steps in the wrong direction. Most of the people who are drawn to such ideas do their actual hunting and gathering in grocery stores, but the *feeling* is there; it takes the form of a religion...expressed by particpating in American Indian rituals - or primitive-style rituals that are created anew.

Walter Truett Anderson

Hunting, Simple, Agriculture

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Fair Trade supports some of the most bio-diverse farming systems in the world. When you visit a Fair Trade coffee grower's fields, with the forest canopy overhead and the sound of migratory songbirds in the air, it feels like you're standing in the rainforest.

Miguel A. Altieri

Coffee, Air, Support

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Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.

Doug Larson

Family, Responsibility, Unity

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The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

Thomas Jefferson

States, Farmers, Homesteading

Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.18, Hackett Publishing

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My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature

Josephine Hart

Mother, Essentials, Passionate

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I grew up believing that the willingness and ability to work is the basic ingredient of successful farming. Hard, intelligent work is the key. Use it, and your chances for success are good.

Ezra Taft Benson

Believe, Successful, Intelligent

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Generally I'm very supportive of farmers. I think the wider Australian population is also. The animal justice fund is focusing on factory-farmed animals and where they're being mistreated.

Jan Cameron

Animal, Thinking, Justice

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Many organic practices simply make sense, regardless of what overall agricultural system is used. Far from being a quaint throwback to an earlier time, organic agriculture is proving to be a serious contender in modern farming and a more environmentally sustainable system over the long term.

David Suzuki

Agriculture, Practice, Long

David Suzuki, David Taylor (2009). “The Big Picture: Reflections on Science, Humanity, and a Quickly Changing Planet”, p.184, Greystone Books

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Organic farming has been shown to provide major benefits for wildlife and the wider environment. The best that can be said about genetically engineered crops is that they will now be monitored to see how much damage they cause.

Prince Charles

Agriculture, Environmental, Benefits

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I can't give you a specific number today, in large part because the analysis upon which we would make that determination has not been completed. . . . I think it is fair to say there may be additional costs associated with a farming operation, but it is very difficult to quantify.

Tom Vilsack

Determination, Thinking, Numbers

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And a revolution of automation finds machines replacing men in the mines and mills of America, without replacing their incomes or their training or their needs to pay the family doctor, grocer and landlord.

John F. Kennedy

Work, Men, Doctors

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[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work begun by those neolithic farmers in the Near East has been carried forward from one generation to the next without a single break, right into the present moment. It's the foundation of your vast civilization today in exactly the same way that it was the foundation of the very first farming village.

Daniel Quinn

War, Past, Civilization

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I'm a conversationalist. I came out of a town with only 300 people. I didn't have anybody to talk to. I didn't want to talk about farming. So when I came out in the world, I started talking. Never stopped.

Jim "Dandy" Mangrum

Talking, People, World

Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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From my standpoint, coca should be neither destroyed nor completely legalized. Farming should be controlled by the state and by the coca farmers' unions.

Evo Morales

Unions, States, Should

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I was born and raised in Pawnee City, Nebraska. I lived right next to the sale barn and I raised pigs. My dad was a guidance counselor at Wymore High School. He was also a preacher and did farming as well. We leased out our crop land but had cattle and horses.

Larry the Cable Guy

Horse, Dad, School

Source: www.huskermax.com

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much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.).

Frances Moore Lappé

Coffee, Land, Tea

Frances Moore Lappé (1971). “Diet for a Small Planet”

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